A world leader in embedded and mobile software.
Wind River Linux

Whether your product is fixed or mobile, fast changing, or
built to last, Wind River platforms deliver the power of open source without the risks.

So you can just start innovating.

What Is Wind River Linux?
Wind River Linux is the market-leading commercial-grade Linux solution for embedded device development. It brings together everything customers need to build and support highly differentiated devices: an optimized run-time; a flexible, scalable build system; pre-integrated middleware packages for specific device types; an integrated development environment; and the best open source tools, adapted and extended for embedded development. Our platforms deliver all the advantages of open source, plus the vision, the innovation, and the business risk mitigation only a mature technology vendor can provide.

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Wind River Linux 4

Our constantly evolving embedded run-time and development platform brings together all the components companies need to develop, test, and support world-class products quickly and cost effectively. Wind River Linux 4 meets the latest open source standards—Carrier Grade Linux 5 and Linux Standard Base 4—and delivers the small footprint and fast boot capability today's embedded devices must have to be competitive.

Wind River Linux Secure

For the first time, organizations that require medium to high security and robustness in their embedded software have the option of using the world's most popular operating system in mission-critical deployments. Certified to EAL4+ and FIPS 140-2 on multiple hardware architectures, Wind River Linux Secure protects connected devices against all of today's most dire threats against security, reliability, and integrity.

Wind River Platform for Android

Optimized, tested, and supported, the popular Wind River Platform for Android speeds mobile device development while it reduces project risks. A complete stack, our Android platform delivers a Linux core, mobile middleware, an application framework, and a user interface, all within an open source licensing structure that invites innovation.

Wind River Platform for Gateways, Residential Profile

By pre-integrating, validating and supporting all the technologies needed to prototype and deploy innovative products to manage devices and services at the network edge, Platform for Gateways brings value to network operators, OEMs and ODMs across the digital living supply chain. It enables them to quickly and cost effectively meet consumers' expectations for ease of use, high performance and constantly expanding services.

 



Since 2004, Wind River Linux platforms have delivered the best of open source technology, integrated and optimized for embedded development, with the vision, the innovation, and the business-risk mitigation only a mature technology vendor can provide. Our customers use our platforms to create groundbreaking devices quickly and cost effectively.

Here are the top nine reasons our customers choose Wind River Linux over commercial and roll-your-own alternatives.

Use the arrows at the bottom left to navigate your way through the list or download a printable PDF version here

Run-time: Jump-start your device development

  • More than 550 packages, pre-integrated and optimized for embedded devices
  • Preconfigured, industry-specific profiles
  • Real-time and virtualization
  • Small footprint, fast boot, and power management
  • Multi-core optimization
  • Powerful, intuitive build system for complex development environments and streamlined workflow
  • Tests on more than 60 board support packages (BSPs)

Tools: Choose the best for each life-cycle phase

  • Eclipse-based development environment
  • Embraced, extended, and optimized open source tools for embedded development
  • Profiling and analysis
  • Debugging and cross-compiling
  • Source configuration management
  • Hardware simulation and test automation
  • Multi-core enablement
  • Command-line support
  • Real-time and virtualization

Services: Get deep Linux expertise that meets your project budget

  • Assessment
  • Consulting
  • Installation and integration
  • Training (onsite or online)
  • Customization
  • Roadmap acceleration
  • Distribution maintenance

Certifications and standards:
Create trusted devices

  • Carrier Grade Linux 5 (availability, reliability, scalability)
  • Linux Standard Base 4 (application portability and open APIs)
  • Full SELinux implementation
  • Open standards compliance, frequent upstream contributions
  • IPv6 (essential for connected devices)
  • EAL4+ for medium to high security; FIPS 140-2 (secure cryptography), FDA Level 2
  • U.S. export regulations

Risk mitigation: Protect your business investment and intellectual property

  • Examination of licensing issues—16 man-months per major release of every open source package
  • More than 1,600 pages of license documentation with each major release
  • 100,00 hours of test and QA per release
  • Dedicated engineers monitoring and addressing security alerts around the clock
  • Expert guidance in open source licensing best practices

Support: Assure device quality and customer satisfaction

  • Multilingual worldwide coverage
  • Six support centers, 20 hubs
  • More than 150 support engineers
  • Choice of standard, premium, or long-term levels of support
  • Service Capability and Performance (SCP) certification
  • Online developer community
  • Support you need, when you need it

Life cycle: Maintain device quality and currency over time

  • Five years of bug and security fixes, for an estimated cost savings to the customer of about $400K per year
  • Predictable roadmap and major release cycle
  • Free service packs and product updates for customers with current support subscriptions
  • Migration support across releases

Ecosystem: Save time and money up and down the stack

  • Industry-leading portfolio of semiconductor and board partners
  • Independent software vendor (ISV) partnerships
  • Out-of-the-box integration and support for semi and middleware partner products
  • Optimized vertical solutions
  • Consortia leadership and innovation
  • More than 200 Linux engineers making frequent upstream contributions

Portfolio: Leverage multi-core and
multi-OS solutions

  • Wind River Network Acceleration Platform
    (linear performance scalability)
  • Wind River Hypervisor (multi-core and virtualization)
  • OpenSAF (middleware stack acceleration)
  • Multiple independent levels of security
    (top secret and mission data)
  • Wind River Simics (advanced hardware simulation)
  • VxWorks (robust real-time operating system)