Space Grade Linux: Building a Safer, Open Source Future for Space Systems
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Space Grade Linux is an ELISA-backed effort to produce a reusable, safety-aware Linux distro for space with a Yocto-based skeleton layer, a public meta-sgl repo, CI/CD, and an early kernel configuration for radiation resilience. It targets predictable boot, OTA updates, and minimal userspace for middleware like CFS and F‑prime, plans a hardware‑in‑the‑loop demo on an affordable RISC‑V dev board, and already has >20 industry partners and workshops (30 in person, 40 virtual); Starlink scale estimates of 12,000–30,000 satellites make portability urgent.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:06Linux in space
- 3:12Space Linux growth
- 5:21Fragmentation in space Linux
- 6:47Space environment for Linux
- 8:33Open source space Linux
- 10:57Progress and focus
- 13:02Roadmap for Space Grade Linux
- 16:15How to contribute
- 19:02Survey insights
- 23:49Q&A session part one
- 31:17Q&A session part two
- 34:24Q&A session part three
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