GeneralInformation

General RTEMS Questions

• What is RTEMS?
• How do you pronounce RTEMS?
  • Listen to Joel Sherrill? pronouncing it for you http://www.rtems.org/ftp/pub/rtems/people/joel/JoelSaysRTEMS.wav
• What does RTEMS stand for?
• What standards are supported by RTEMS?
• What processors is RTEMS available for?
• Where/why was it developed? Who Developed RTEMS??
• Are there similar commercial products??

General Real-Time/Embedded? Questions

• Executive Vs. Kernel Vs. Operating System Vs. RTOS?

Getting Started

• Where can I download RTEMS??
• How can I obtain RTEMS support??

Resources

• Are there any RTEMS Mailing Lists?

• I am having trouble. Who should I contact?

Your best best is always to ask on the RTEMS Users Mailing List RTEMS Mailing Lists. In addition to the core maintainers, your question will be seen by 100s of existing users who are more than willing to help you. You are obviously free to email one of the RTEMS developers privately but your question has a better chance of being answered if you ask it on the list. Your question will be seen by more experts and archived for future reference if you ask it on the mailing list.

The RTEMS Community is very friendly and we all remember being the new kid in town. Speak up. Ask questions.

• Is there any online training material?

The RTEMS Project has a Moodle-based eLeaning RTEMS Mailing Lists site which includes material on RTEMS. RTEMS has been used in classes at multiple universities and we hope to be able to gather that material in the Moodle. In addition, JoelSherrill regularly teaches 4 day RTEMS classes (see [RTEMS_Training| RTEMS Training Opportunities]). If you are an instructor at a university, please contact Joel so he can work with you to meet your classroom needs.

Licensing and Export

• Are there any restrictions on the RTEMS License??
• Are there Export Restrictions??