New Linux-based effort to support global civil infrastructure demands

The Linux Foundation has announced the Civil Infrastructure Platform,"an open source framework that will provide the software foundationneeded to deliver essential services for civil infrastructure and economicdevelopment on a global scale." Civil infrastructure systemsdeliver critical services such as electric power, oil and gas, water,health care, communications, transportation and more. "The CivilInfrastructure Platform will aim to work upstream with the Linux kernel and other open source projects to establish a "base layer" ofindustrial-grade software. This base layer will enable the use of softwarebuilding blocks that meet safety, security, reliability and otherrequirements that are critical to industrial and civil infrastructureprojects."