RTLinux is a hard real-time OS, as opposed to soft real-time systems or those that make no scheduling guarantees whatsoever. RTLinux is a hard real-time kernel that runs Linux or BSD as an idle task, ...

If you follow the open-source software culture at all, you're aware of the us vs. them mentality that has developed. In the Slashdot view of the world, there are those who "get it" and those who don't ...