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The Civil Infrastructure Platform after (nearly) ten years
The Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) first launched in that form in April 2016, so it has a tenth-anniversary celebration in its near future. At the 2025 Open Source Summit Japan, Yoshitake Kobayashi talked about the goals of this project and where it is headed in the future. Supporting a Linux system for even one year is a challenging task; maintaining that support for a decade or more is rather more so, and a changing regulatory environment complicates the task further.
The mission of CIP is to provide "industrial-grade Linux" as an open-source base layer, Kobayashi began. CIP has run up a few achievements in its first ten years, starting with the "super long-term support" (SLTS) kernels, which are supported for a minimum of ten years. CIP has been working toward alignment with industry standards, and IEC 62443 (which is concerned with "requirements and processes for implementing and maintaining electronically secure industrial automation and control systems
") in particular. The project has also made significant upstream contributions to projects like Debian and KernelCI.