MontaVista
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MontaVista Software develops systems software, development tools Linux-based software targeting consumer electronics which includes automotive electronics, communications equipment, and television set-top boxes and other connected devices and infrastructure. It is based in Sunnyvale, California and was founded in 1999 by Jim Ready (previously at Mentor Graphics) and others.
Their more famous products include MontaVista Linux, a version of Linux that has been enhanced to become a fully fledged real-time operating system. The changes done by MontaVista have been submitted back to the Linux kernel.
MontaVista Linux was used in the Motorola A760 and Motorola A768i phones by Motorola. This was despite the fact that Motorola was a founding member of a competing OS, the Symbian OS, released in February 16, 2003 to the China market. This was also the first time Linux was used on a mobile phone. The Montavista Linux distribution is a very popular Linux distribution in consumer electronics and in Japan. Another of their products is DevRocket, an IDE based on Eclipse, an open source IDE. Both are based on Java. IDE runs on Linux, Solaris and Windows. It features a C Development Toolkit (CDT).
Mobile phones using MontaVista Linux
- Motorola A760
- Motorola A768i
- Motorola A780
- Motorola E680
- NEC N900iL
- NEC N901iC
- Panasonic P901i
