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Yocto Project® in its 10th Year Welcomes New Members, Announces an LTS Release and Maintainer, Schedules a Two-Day Technical SummitSAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Yocto Project, an open-source collaboration project that helps developers create custom Linux-based systems, is proud to be celebrating its 10-year anniversary at the virtual Embedded Linux Conference Europe, October 26-29. Co-located with the event, the Yocto Project presents its own standalone event, the Yocto Project Summit, which will offer two days of technical training for both beginner and advanced developers. Attendees can participate in a variety of sessions, presentations, and tutorials dedicated to the project. The Yocto Project has evolved significantly over the last decade to meet the requirements of its members and users. The project continues to lead in build system technology with field leading advances in build reproducibility, software license management and binary artefact reuse. "It's amazing to see the project being used in so many places, for example in the home, data centres, automotive and networking industries, medical devices and even in space - in satellites around Mars," said Richard Purdie, Yocto Project Lead Architect and Linux Foundation Fellow. To support these usages and more, the Yocto Project announces its first Long Term Support (LTS) release, 3.1 "Dunfell". This LTS release offers two years of update support, with Steve Sakoman of Sakoman Inc. at the helm as the Yocto Project LTS maintainer. The Yocto Project welcomes Microsoft at the Platinum Level, joining Intel, Texas Instruments, Comcast, Arm, Cisco, Facebook, and Xilinx. Automotive Grade Linux joins the project as a Gold member, and Foundries.io and Savoir-faire Linux as Silver members. This continued growth of the project's technical and financial ecosystem during 2020 exhibits the strength and stability of Yocto Project. Since comng on the scene a decade ago, the Yocto Project has been at the vanguard of OS technologies. The flexibility and breadth of the tooling provided are clearly making a difference to the community, the fact that our membership continues to grow is testament to our value," said Andrew Wafaa, Yocto Project Chairperson Microsoft Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) Foundries.io Savoir-faire Linux About Yocto Project Yocto Project and the Linux Foundation are trademarks of the Linux Foundation. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Media Contact
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