[dragontamer]

> Compare this to Linux

Therein lies your mistake.

I'm not comparing Ultibo to Linux. I'm comparing it to FreeRTOS. https://www.freertos.org/

An "Embedded Operating System" has far fewer features than you believe. Ultibo has more features than FreeRTOS, so its weird to call Ultibo just a set of libraries or a programming environment (like Arduino). Since Ultibo can replace FreeRTOS, its an OS.

[ric355]

The reason I mentioned linux is because that is what runs on a Pi normally and hence that is what people tend to compare Ultibo to. In my opinion that is not a sensible comparison, so we probably agree there as you are comparing it to FreeRTOS.

This whole discussion is, I think, one of the reasons why Ultibo has failed to get any traction in terms of users, despite the clever stuff you can do with it (not the only reason though as audience reach is probably a bigger one). There are only just over 1,100 members on the forum, which is kinda sad considering the effort that must have gone into producing it and the length of time it has been around (about 7 years now I think).

Perhaps you are correct and they should have marketed it as an Embedded OS for Pi. It might have made more sense to people that way, rather than describing it as a bare metal development platform.