Following the meetings of developers and users at the previous 7 successful real-time Linux workshops held in Vienna, Orlando, Milano, Boston, and Valencia, Singapore, Lille, the Real-Time Linux Workshop for 2006 will come back to Asia again, to be held at the School for Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, in Lanzhou China.
Embedded and real-time Linux is rapidly gaining traction in the Asia Pacific region. Embedded systems in both automation/control and entertainment moving to 32/64bit systems, opening the door for the use of full featured OS like GNU/Linux on COTS based systems. With real-time capabilities being a common demand for embedded systems the soft and hard real-time variants are an important extension to the versatile GNU/Linux GPOS.