Amazon FreeRTOS – IoT operating system for microcontrollers
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Re: Amazon FreeRTOS – IoT operating system for microcontrollers
#2It might have been nice of them to change the name slightly to avoid confusion with the originating FreeRTOS. https://www.freertos.org/
Re: Amazon FreeRTOS – IoT operating system for microcontrollers
#3It might have been nice of them to change the name slightly to avoid confusion with the originating FreeRTOS. https://www.freertos.org/
At the top of the page you linked to, I see this message:
> The FreeRTOS kernel is now an AWS open source project, and these pages are being updated accordingly.
Given that, the distinction probably isn't super important.
Re: Amazon FreeRTOS – IoT operating system for microcontrollers
#4It might have been nice of them to change the name slightly to avoid confusion with the originating FreeRTOS. https://www.freertos.org/
It seems it is exactly freeRTOS, but with some additional drivers and libs so not changing the name seems to be a good decision I think. I am wondering however if by using this os, the dev is obliged to use aws services. Isn't this more of a limitation than a benefit?
Re: Amazon FreeRTOS – IoT operating system for microcontrollers
#5It might have been nice of them to change the name slightly to avoid confusion with the originating FreeRTOS. https://www.freertos.org/
At the top of the page you linked to, I see this message: > The FreeRTOS kernel is now an AWS open source project, and these pages are being updated accordingly. Given that, the distinction probably isn't super important.
Good catch I didn't see that announcement there. That does change things
Re: Amazon FreeRTOS – IoT operating system for microcontrollers
#6It might have been nice of them to change the name slightly to avoid confusion with the originating FreeRTOS. https://www.freertos.org/
>Amazon FreeRTOS is based on the FreeRTOS kernel, a popular open source operating system for microcontrollers, and extends it with software libraries that make it easy to securely connect your small, low-power devices to AWS cloud services like AWS IoT Core or to more powerful edge devices running AWS Greengrass.
Re: Amazon FreeRTOS – IoT operating system for microcontrollers
#7Is this like the sample projects Microsoft makes available for interfacing a variety of development boards to their IoT hub [0] (a few of which use FreeRTOS), or is there something more to it? As usual the AWS docs are rich in inspiring buzz-words and very poor in explaining what the thing actually does. Not that Azure is better in that regard...
Re: Amazon FreeRTOS – IoT operating system for microcontrollers
#8It might have been nice of them to change the name slightly to avoid confusion with the originating FreeRTOS. https://www.freertos.org/
It seems it is exactly freeRTOS, but with some additional drivers and libs so not changing the name seems to be a good decision I think. I am wondering however if by using this os, the dev is obliged to use aws services. Isn't this more of a limitation than a benefit?
That's a fair question. There definitely are people not wanting the additional stuff from Amazon.
Re: Amazon FreeRTOS – IoT operating system for microcontrollers
#9Is this like the sample projects Microsoft makes available for interfacing a variety of development boards to their IoT hub [0] (a few of which use FreeRTOS), or is there something more to it? As usual the AWS docs are rich in inspiring buzz-words and very poor in explaining what the thing actually does. Not that Azure is better in that regard... [0] https://catalog.azureiotsuite.com/
In this case it seems Amazon outright acquired whoever was maintaining FreeRTOS and has made it available under an MIT license:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/announcing-freertos-...
So presumably they have bigger plans beyond examples.
Re: Amazon FreeRTOS – IoT operating system for microcontrollers
#10The most useful aspect of this, from my perspective: they've finally abolished the non-FOSS license of the old FreeRTOS, and released it under an actually Open Source license, namely MIT. That's one less headache to deal with.