Dear Friends,
Although I had joined this group about a month back, I did not know what ELKS
stood for until one of the friend announced he has completed a 8086 based single board
computer. It is really great to know Linux also runs on such hardware.
For the past 5 years I had been working in NT and I got bored and now shifting
to UNIX platform which appears to be far more fundamental, robust and reliable. I now
use NT only for word processing and e-mails.
As regards myself, I am working in the area of Data Acquisition systems and
Networking and had been using DOS for my embedded data acquisition systems. Seeing
Linux has created some interest to develop my systems using Linux.
I would like to ask a few questions:
1) Is ELKS qualified for Safety applications (Eg: Plant Temperature Control system,
and is the Kernel development controlled by some body of members)
2) I have a 8088 based Industrial PC\XT board and is it possible to run Linux on it.
3) Pl. suggest me some useful documentation and papers on this topic, so that I can
proceed.
4) Is this ELKS formally distributed like RedHat Linux, SuSe Linux as a product or is
it a free product.
5) Pl. suggest me where I can look for software, development tools and procedure for
embedding Linux to my harware.
With Regards,
N.SRIDHAR.
Electronics & Instrumentation Division
Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam.
