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Get Wind River® Linux for your embedded system deployments in connected edge devices, servers, or virtual environments. Wind River Linux provides a validated and reliable operating system that can scale across a wide range of use cases.
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branchName: WRLINUX_10_18_BASE
repoURL: git://github.com/WindRiver-Labs/wrlinux-x.git
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Why Wind River Linux?
Wind River Linux is the market leader for building outstanding embedded products based on open source innovation, ensuring customers work with the latest code from the most important open source efforts and most recent technologies.
Wind River offers a no-cost version of the subscription-based commercial version. How does the no-cost product download differ from the subscription-based access?
What is it?
A snapshot of the latest Yocto Project release (Yocto Project 2.6). Wind River Linux is ISO 9001:2015 certified.
Commercial version of the latest Yocto Project release with hardened quality and additional risk mitigation assets such as: continuous security monitoring and vulnerability protection, IP compliance artifacts, extended list of board support packages (BSPs) across a variety of architectures, customer support, and maintenance. Wind River Linux is ISO 9001:2015 certified.
Hosting
Public Wind River GitHub repositories and downloads from upstream sites
Private Wind River GitHub repositories with all downloads from Wind River
Security vulnerability protection
Tracks the latest 2.6 release
(Track 12-month lifecycle of 2.6)
Continuous monitoring and fixes for all Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) affecting the product (60 months)
IP and export compliance artifacts
No provided artifacts
Includes zipped archive that contains the following:
- License disclosure artifacts, in SPDX format
- Source code legal notices and third-party notice files
- Bill of materials for open source components
- OpenChain conformance
Customer support and maintenance
No customer support and maintenance
Product updates and support under the regular software license agreement
(26 updates [RCPLs] over 60 months)
Ready to Use in Production?
Providing OS support and maintenance for a commercialized product can be costly. With a Wind River Linux subscription, you get a fully supported solution that lowers the total cost of operation (TCO) for building, deploying, and maintaining embedded and IoT devices, allowing you to focus on your core value-add.
A Wind River Linux subscription includes:
Long-term support for the lifecycle of your products
Continuous monitoring and fixes for security vulnerabilities
Extended list of BSPs across a variety of architectures
ISO 9001:2015 quality management system standard certification
Licensing data, source code legal notices, and export disclosure
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