type private industry embedded software founded 1988 headquarters san jose california key people gurjot singh ceo inder singh chairman products operating systems tools website www.lynx.com lynx software technologies inc. formerly lynuxworks is a san jose california software company founded in 1988 . lynx software technologies specializes in secure virtualization and open and reliable real time operating system rtos . originally known as lynx real time systems the company changed its name to lynuxworks in 2000 after acquiring and merging with isdcorp integrated software & devices corporation a nine year old embedded systems company with a strong linux background . in may 2014 the company changed its name to lynx software technologies as a representation of the company s forward direction as the lynxos rtos family of products and the lynxsecure hypervisor continued to gain increased traction both with current customers and markets and with the new internet connected embedded world . lynx software technologies has created technology that has been successfully deployed in thousands of designs and millions of products made by leading communications industrial transportation avionics aerospace defense and consumer electronics companies . in 1989 lynxos the company s flagship real time operating system was selected for use in the nasa ibm space station freedom project . 1 lynx software technologies operating systems are also used in medical industrial and communications systems around the world . 2 lynx software technologies is held in private . in 2000 the company filed a registration statement for initial public offering 3 but later withdrew those plans due to unfavourable economic conditions . 4 operating system evolution and history edit this section contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . march 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message lynxos is the company s real time operating system . it is unix compatible and posix compliant . it features predictable worst case response time preemptive scheduling real time priorities romable kernel and memory locking . with lynxos 7.0 is marketed as a military grade operating system and is intended for developers to embed these security features as they design their system rather than adding security as an afterthought . this security can be used to protect both user accessible and also machine to machine m2m based embedded devices utilizing access control lists audit quotas local trusted path account management trusted menu manager and openpam . the lynxsecure hypervisor bare metal type 1 and separation kernel was released in 2005 . full virtualization and paravirtualization of multiple guest operating systems was possible in high assurance embedded systems . lynxsecure implements the data isolation damage limitation and information flow policies specified by the mils multiple independent levels of security safety architecture . the separation kernel and type 0 hypervisor is an award winning bare metal architecture designed from the ground up that differentiates from type 1 hypervisors by removing the un needed functionality from the security sensitive hypervisor mode yet virtualizes guest oses in a tiny stand alone package . by combining the best of breed capabilities of the separation kernel technology and virtualization lynxsecure provides unmatched capabilities citation needed to run one or more guest os real time or gpos on embedded desktop or server platforms . lynxsecure provides one of the most flexible secure virtualization solutions for use in intel architecture based embedded and it computer systems . designed to maintain the highest levels of military security lynxsecure offers an industry leading combination of security with functionality allowing developers and integrators to use the latest software and hardware technologies to build complex os based systems . in 2003 the company introduced the lynxos 178 real time operating system a specialized version of lynxos geared toward avionics applications that require certification to industry standards such as do 178b . lynxos 178 is a commercial off the shelf cots rtos that fully satisfies the objectives of the do 178b level a specification and meets requirements for integrated modular avionics developers . lynxos 178 is also the only time and space partitioned rtos that has been awarded the faa reusable software component rsc certification . lynxos 178 provides full posix conformance enabling developers to take advantage of the time to market and investment protection benefits of open standards based development . the powerful formula of reusable do 178b certification and posix conformance allows developers to meet the most stringent requirements for real time safety critical applications while at the same time ensure application portability software reuse and interoperability between embedded systems . in 2000 lynx software technologies released its first embedded linux distribution bluecat linux 1.0 and specialized in paravirtualized linux for embedded systems with virtualization . lynx software technologies patents on lynxos technology include patent 5 469 571 operating system architecture using multiple priority light weight kernel task based interrupt handling november 21 1995 and patent 5 594 903 operating system architecture with reserved memory space resident program code identified in file system name space january 14 1997 . 5 the usenet newsgroup comp.os.lynx established in 1993 serves as an unmoderated forum for general discussion of lynxos and lynuxworks . references edit http www.linuxdevices.com news ns7302136246.html lynuxworks ceo ascends to visionary role . http www.lynuxworks.com embedded os.php3 http news.cnet.com 2100 1001 247673 . html embedded linux firm lynuxworks files for ipo oct 26 2000 http www.linuxdevices.com news ns7828993998.html lynuxworks withdraws ipo june 21 2001 . http www.patentstorm.us assignee patents lynx real time systems inc 461642 1.html external links edit official site 1 2 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title lynx software technologies & oldid 675083700 categories software companies based in californialinux companiescomputer companies of the united statesreal time operating systemsembedded operating systemscompanies based in san jose californiahidden categories articles with a promotional tone from march 2015all articles with a promotional toneall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from february 2015 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 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