Are you...

Tired of expensive realtime operating systems?
Looking for deterministic response to interrupts?
Working with POSIX compliant or native RTAI realtime tasks?
Searching for friendly community support?
All that ontop of a general purpose operating system with penguins inside?
Then RTAI might be the realtime extension of your choice! The Realtime Application Interface consists mainly of two parts:

A patch to the Linux kernel which introduces a hardware abstraction layer
A broad variety of services which make realtime programmers' lifes easier

RTAI is a true community project. Just download and try it out - the developers are looking forward to your comments, ideas and other help to make RTAI one of the best realtime extensions available!

This website is the master ressource for all kind of information about RTAI. If you feel it's interesting for you subscribe to our users' mailing list where all kinds of topics related to RTAI can be discussed.

RTAI Team

Roberto Bucher
Lorenzo Dozio
Daniele Gasperini
Hannes Mayer
Paolo Mantegazza
Pierangelo Masarati
Michael Neuhauser
Giovanni Racciu
David Schleef
Peter Soetens