FreeRTOS and Raspberry Pi OS both can be installed on Raspberry Pi boards. Are they two independent operating systems that fits on Raspberry Pi boards ? I mean any of the two operating system can be used on the Raspberry Pi boards ? We don’t both of them at the same time ?

[image] thomas_ee: Are they two independent operating systems that fits on Raspberry Pi boards ? I mean any of the two operating system can be used on the Raspberry Pi boards ? We don’t both of them at the same time ? Yes, you can use one at a time. You can use these tutorials to learn more a…

Thank you for confirming that need to have one operating system at a time. I have watched some tutorials of FreeRTOS that basically includes how to run scheduling on dual core processors, multi tasking by running threads, and the concept of using shared resources like mutex etc. Next question is w…

[image] thomas_ee: Next question is which operating system is superior then the other, FreeRTOS or Raspberry Pi OS. This is a bit of an apples to oranges comparison. FreeRTOS is a Real Time Operating System while RPI OS is not. This makes these fundamentally different in how they behave. To a…

Thanks for reply and nice explanation.

raspberry pi pico (mcu) for example is a complete different architecture than raspberry pi 4 (soc) for example one runs freertos and one runs a linux system. beside the raspberry in the name they have nothing in common

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kstribrn (Kody Stribrny) January 15, 2025, 4:41pm 5

If you can tell us about what you’d like to accomplished we may be able to suggest starting place.

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