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Development and distribution

Development and distribution model

AutoSD is developed within the open source ecosystem and delivered as a reliable, industry-grade distribution.

Open source development

AutoSD follows upstream-first development:

Diagram shows code flow from open source projects, such as the Linux mainline kernel from kernel.org, to Fedora, Fedora Enterprise Linux Next (ELN), to CentOS Stream. CentOS Stream receives contributions from many CentOS SIGs, which then flow to both RHEL and AutoSD. The Automotive SIG contributes AutoSD code back to various open source projects. Finally, RHEL and AutoSD code converge to form Red Hat In-Vehicle OS.

AutoSD participates in the full open source to enterprise development lifecycle

Benefits:

  • Innovation: Latest technologies from automotive and Linux communities
  • Transparency: Complete source code availability and build reproducibility
  • Collaboration: Industry-wide cooperation on common challenges
  • Quality: Battle-tested code from multiple downstream products

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Package management and distribution

Binary distribution benefits:

  • Ready-to-deploy: Precompiled packages reduce build time and complexity
  • Consistency: Reproducible deployments across development and production
  • Supply chain: Verified, signed packages with complete dependency resolution
  • Architecture support: Native ARM64 and x86_64 optimizations

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