BlueCat Linux from LynuxWorks (www.LynuxWorks.com)

LynuxWorks’s BlueCat Linux Version 3.0 is a professional embedded Linux toolkit that’s fully documented, supports a broad range of target hardware, and is freely downloadable (although you have to agree not to develop commercial applications with the freely downloadable version). The software is distributed on several CDs—one for all of the source code, and one for the binaries of each architecture.

LynuxWorks’s CDK includes the following items:

  • Compilers for C, C++, and Java

  • Hooks for the GDB debugger

  • Performance measurement tools

  • A small set of network tools and applications

The following target processor families are supported:

  • Intel IA-32 (x86)

  • PowerPC

  • PowerQUICC

  • ARM/ARM7/ARM9/StrongARM ...

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