The presentation reviews the available solutions which can be used to reduce the latency of Linux systems, to satisfy "soft" real-time to "hard" real-time constraints.

There is a special focus on RTAI and Xenomai, the community solutions, but standard kernel options and commercial offerings are also covered.

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