In terms of release date, real-time Linux is now pretty close to vanilla Linux - the -rt tree of 2.6.29 became "Latest Stable" on the same day as vanilla 2.6.30 was released - thus, the -rt real-time tree is only one release number behind! And the distance between vanilla and -rt will become even closer in the next future, until both are released the same day - the day when the CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT configuration item will appear in an unpatched vanilla kernel. This will, hopefully, be the day when real-time capabilities will be available in standard Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora and others.
New mainline Linux kernel with real-time capabilities released
Linux kernel version 2.6.29.4-rt17 is now our "Latest Stable" real-time kernel
In terms of release date, real-time Linux is now pretty close to vanilla Linux - the -rt tree of 2.6.29 became "Latest Stable" on the same day as vanilla 2.6.30 was released - thus, the -rt real-time tree is only one release number behind! And the distance between vanilla and -rt will become even closer in the next future, until both are released the same day - the day when the CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT configuration item will appear in an unpatched vanilla kernel. This will, hopefully, be the day when real-time capabilities will be available in standard Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora and others.