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Real-time Linux is officially part of the kernel after decades of debate

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In the upcoming Linux kernel, PREEMPT_RT will likely be merged into the mainline mainline.

Preempt_RT has existed since at least 2005 .

The guaranteed execution and worst-case latency timings a real-time Linux provides are quite useful to, say, the systems that monitor car brakes, guide CNC machines.