1 headquarters pittsburgh pennsylvania key people atul bansal ceo 2 slogan embedded linux from a trusted source website www.timesys.com timesys is a privately owned company that helps software development teams build and maintain a custom linux platform for a wide variety of embedded processors from semiconductor manufacturers such as atmel freescale intel texas instruments and xilinx . 3 the company was founded in 1996 out of carnegie mellon university and is headquartered in pittsburgh pennsylvania . the company was initially known for providing the industry s first real time enhanced embedded linux distribution 4 5 known as timesys linux rt. a pioneer and industry leader in embedded linux solutions timesys joined the osdl in 2003 6 and in 2004 was the first to register a carrier grade linux distribution . 7 in 2005 timesys open sourced their intellectual property as a means to embrace the open source embedded linux community 8 and at that time the company also launched its flagship product linuxlink . linuxlink is a software development framework 9 that helps embedded software development teams configure patch build and maintain an open source linux platform . it includes a linux kernel gnu toolchain packages and libraries and development tools . subscribers are also provided with regular updates extensive how to documentation and support . all linux platform components and updates are open source and are provided through the linuxlink factory custom platform builder . 10 embedded linux platforms developed and maintained through linuxlink exist in hundreds of consumer electronics medical device industrial automation and networking products . 1 references edit a b about timesys . retrieved 16 august 2015 . timesys management team . retrieved 16 august 2015 . supported processor families . retrieved 16 august 2015 . timesys announces availability of linux rt 1.0 . archived from the original on 2012 09 09 . timesys issues position statement on montavista real time . archived from the original on 2013 01 28 . timesys joins osdl with focus on carrier grade linux . archived from the original on 2012 09 10 . timesys first to register carrier grade linux distribution . . retrieved 16 august 2015 . timesys drops distro model embraces roll your own embedded linux services . archived from the original on 2012 09 04 . timesys linuxlink build embedded linux based devices quickly . retrieved 16 august 2015 . timesys factory tm no compromise custom platform builder . retrieved 16 august 2015 . external links edit timesys corporation website timesys linuxlink website v t e linux linux kernel history kernel linus s law linux libre linux startup process linux kernel oops tux more controversies criticism of linux criticism of desktop linux gnu linux naming controversy tanenbaum torvalds debate sco and linux distributions general comparison distributions list netbook specific comparison distributions that run from ram lightweight proprietary software for linux package manager package format list of software package managers organizations linux foundation linux mark institute linux user group lug linux documentation project linuxchix linux counter adoption desktop embedded gaming linux range of use list of linux adopters media free software magazine linux.com linux format open source for you linux gazette linux journal linux magazine linuxuser ubuntu user linux outlaws linux voice lugradio lwn.net phoronix revolution os the code people alan cox allison randal andrew morton benjamin mako hill bradley kuhn bruce perens daniel robbins david s. miller greg kroah hartman ian murdock jon maddog hall jono bacon karen sandler linus torvalds eric s. raymond mark shuttleworth pamela jones patrick volkerding richard stallman theodore ts o william john sullivan linux linux kernel features portal linux wikiproject linux this article related to a computer company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title timesys & oldid 726567732 categories software companies based in pennsylvanialinux companiesembedded linuxcomputer companies of the united statesprivately held companies based in pennsylvaniacomputer company stubshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 23 june 2016 at 00 29 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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