REDSonic, Inc. introduces RED-Kit, a set-top box for evaluation, which will provide application developers the ability to create real-time applications and programs. Orange County, California, January 18th 2001 REDSonic, Inc., a provider of real-time and embedded Linux solutions, today announced the release of RED-Kit, a software and hardware platform for embedded system developers. RED-Kit is convenient for embedded system developers and includes all the necessary software pre-loaded to create real-time and non-real time applications. RED-Kit is the ideal turnkey solution for prototype development and evaluation of REDSonic's real-time REDICE-Linux. REDICE-Linux is perfect for mission and time critical applications and provides quality of service for embedded systems. It includes a high precision microsecond timer, a short preemption time kernel, powerful and predictable system schedulers, and mechanisms to provide task performance guarantees. Standard Features: Anthony's Editor: A very small text editor that is easy to use. DHCP client and server Tiny shell, which supports all standard Bourne shell commands. Ability to issue commands to delay job execution and batch processing Small suite of UNIX utilities in a multi-call binary; it provides a pretty complete POSIX environment in a very small package Utilities for managing the second extended (ext2) file system Standard UNIX command-line FTP client The GNU database library for C Security wrapper for tcp daemons TELNET client and server Practical Extraction and Report Language (PERL) and CGI for PERL. Fast, small, and secure web server Reduced terminfo database Libraries to support JPEG and PNG image format files Audio MPEG player with support for layers 1, 2, and 3 Tiny suite of utilities for handling logins at the console Additional Software: MicroBrowser and GTK/Embedded Windowing System JavaScript 1.1, JVM, HTML 3.2, HTTP 1.1, SSL 2.0 / 3.0 Macromedia Flash, GIF, JPEG, PNG, animated GIF, Image map Cookies, bookmarks, URL saving and history Frame and table support Foreign language fonts GTK 1.2 Embedded A few of RED-Kit's capabilities: Web Browser Web Server MP3 player DHCP client/server Router Firewall Gateway Proxy Server Hardware Specifications: x86 Pentium Media GXM 233MHz 32MB SDRAM 32MB M-System DiskOnChip Wireless Keyboard & Mouse Control Audio Support 10BaseT Ethernet Support Serial & Parallel Port ABOUT REDSonic, Inc. REDSonic, Inc. is a leading provider of Total Real-Time Linux Solutions. Based in Orange County, California, REDSonic was co-founded in March 2000 by a select team of academic and industry professionals representing a rich mixture of experience and expertise in the field of real-time Linux technology. Providing the critical RTOS software, development tools, system design, and professional services necessary for the embedded system and information appliance marketplace, REDSonic has positioned itself at the vanguard of this emerging industry. Coupled with industry leading services support, REDSonic's products include: REDICE-Linux T (A Real-Time Linux Operating System) RED-Probe T (A Real-Time Event Monitoring Tool) RED-Builder T (An Embedded Image Building Tool) RED-Manager (A System Administration Tool) RED-Kit (STB Evaluation Platform) Contact REDSonic at http://www.redsonic.com, via e-mail to info@redsonic.com, or by phone (949) 833-9679 or fax (949) 833-9479. REDICE-Linux, RED-Builder and RED-Probe are trademarks of REDSonic, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies.