The Linux Foundation Member Summit 2020

Bosch like many other industrial companies use GNU/Linux as an operating system for a large portion of the devices they produce in particular in the IoT context. While Linux distributions have done a great job to compile and maintain a consistent set of packages to provide the software stack for these devices it still requires huge extra efforts to fulfil the increasing requirements over the entire device life cycle that is currently done internally for each device.
As it is based on open source the question is if a significant part of this work could also be done in an open source way with all the positive effects that we can see in the community.
Bosch has done one step into this direction by releasing some of this product work as open source in the Apertis project.
In this talk Steffen would like to share their experience, the challenges they encountered, what they learned and what the next steps could be.
On the other hand, he would like to know what your experiences are, what you think and find out how you can together improve the situation for all of us.