The latest special interest group (SIG) of CentOS mainly focuses on the research and development of Linux applications in the automotive field. Last week, the CentOS board of directors meeting officially approved the establishment of this SIG. The CentOS Automotive SIG is supported by Red Hat, and it seems more to provide an open-source home for the company’s automotive Linux work than to promote CentOS directly in the car.
Red Hat has been investing in in-vehicle infotainment systems and other automotive work around Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and it is clear that the CentOS Automotive Technology Group will help promote this work.
The page of the CentOS Automotive Technology Group explains: The purpose of the Automotive Technology Group is twofold. First, it is a neutral public space for third parties who are interested in the open development of software for automotive use cases. Secondly, Its purpose is to provide a build and test infrastructure for these projects. The SIG’s goal is to provide an open-source home for RHEL-oriented automotive work and to attract and encourage automotive software open/development collaboration between commercial and non-commercial partners.
The CentOS automotive technology team will work to create open-source software around the car, incorporate it into the upstream automotive open source project, and build a special version of CentOS for the car based on RHEL for Edge. More about the initial plans of the CentOS automotive technology team supported by Red Hat can be found on the CentOS Wiki.
