The Linux Foundation’s LF Research published a 10-year retrospective on the Civil Infrastructure Platform, describing how member companies including Siemens, Renesas, Cybertrust Japan, Texas Instruments and Toshiba pool engineering resources and sponsor the foundation’s collaborative support programs to maintain a 10-year Super Long-Term Support Linux kernel baseline. The report frames the arrangement as a way to mutualize software longevity costs and EU Cyber Resilience Act compliance, where non-compliance penalties can reach 15 million euros or 2.5% of global annual turnover, and recommends that asset operators become active stewards rather than passive software consumers to keep the project sustainable.
A Decade of Industrial Grade Linux: How the Civil Infrastructure Platform Is Securing Mission-Critical Systems
The Linux Foundation's LF Research published a 10-year retrospective on the Civil Infrastructure Platform, describing how member companies including Siemens, Renesas, Cybertrust Japan, Texas Instruments and Toshiba pool engineering resources and sponsor the foundation's collaborative support programs to maintain a 10-year Super Long-Term Support Linux kernel baseline. The report frames the arrangement as a way to mutualize software longevity costs and EU Cyber Resilience Act compliance, where non-compliance penalties can reach 15 million euros or 2.5% of global annual turnover, and recommends that asset operators become active stewards rather than passive software consumers to keep the project sustainable.
Source: Linux Foundation