Modernising the ESRF control system with GNU/Linux
<|reference_start|>Modernising the ESRF control system with GNU/Linux: he ESRF control system is in the process of being modernised. The present contrsystem is based on VME, 10 MHz Ethernet, OS9, Solaris, HP-UX, NFS/RPC, Motif and C. The new control system will be based on compact PCI, 100 MHz Ethernet, Linux, Windows, Solaris, CORBA/IIOP, C++, Java and Python. The main frontend operating system will be GNU/Linux running on Intel/x86 and Motorola/68k. Linux will also be used on handheld devices for mobile control. This poster describes how GNU/Linux is being used to modernise the control system and what problems have been encountered so far<|reference_end|>
@article{gotz2001modernising,
    title={Modernising the ESRF control system with GNU/Linux},
    author={A.Gotz, A.Homs, B.Regad, M.Perez, P.Makijarvi, W.D.Klotz},
    journal={eConf C011127 (2001) WEAP023},
    year={2001},
    number={WEAP023},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0111033},
    primaryClass={cs.DC}
}