Well folks, it would appear that the latest MontaVista is ready for shipping according to a report from Linux Devices…

MontaVista is shipping a new version of its flagship embedded Linux operating system. MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 4.0 (”Pro”) initially supports 25-30 processor families and a dozen reference boards — all from a “unified” 2.6 kernel source tree — and is the first commercial product offering “the latest real-time enhancements” for Linux, the company claims.

Today’s announcement of a fourth-generation Pro product signals that MontaVista remains committed to the general-purpose embedded Linux OS market, despite a growing focus on its Mobilinux distribution for mobile phones and Carrier Grade Edition (”CGE”) for networking equipment — specialized Linux stacks that have led some to suggest that the company was turning into a proprietary software company serving the telecommunications market. [Read the rest]