{"id":881449,"date":"2025-09-29T09:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.electronicsweekly.com\/?p=881449"},"modified":"2025-09-29T09:20:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:20:55","slug":"open-source-linux-os-for-prototyping-to-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electronicsweekly.com\/open-source-engineering\/linux\/open-source-linux-os-for-prototyping-to-production-2025-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Open-source Linux OS for prototyping to production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A scalable Linux tool launched by Peridio is an open-source OS designed to migrate designs from protoype to production.<\/p><div class=\"elect-content\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"elect-1863599667\"><div id=\"x02\">\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> if ($(window).width() <= 768) { googletag.display('x02'); } <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-881455\" src=\"https:\/\/static.electronicsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/28162449\/Peridio-for-EW-2-300x207.webp\" alt=\"Periodio Avocado OS\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.electronicsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/28162449\/Peridio-for-EW-2-300x207.webp 300w, https:\/\/static.electronicsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/28162449\/Peridio-for-EW-2-768x529.webp 768w, https:\/\/static.electronicsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/28162449\/Peridio-for-EW-2-160x110.webp 160w, https:\/\/static.electronicsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/28162449\/Peridio-for-EW-2.webp 991w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Justin Schneck, co-founder and chief product officer of <a rel=\"image\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peridio.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Peridio<\/a>, explained that embedded developers&#8217; either have to choose a packaged Linux distribution which can work immediately but which is difficult to scale and secure in volume production, or build their own security-hardened, scalable one to implement with the Yocto Project.<\/p><div class=\"elect-test\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"elect-1092626086\"><div id=\"DFP-EW-InRead1\">\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> if ($(window).width() > 768) { googletag.display('DFP-EW-InRead1'); } <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<BR>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>It is designed to help developers manage the &#8220;dramatically compressed&#8221; development and release timescales imposed by edge AI applications to release new models in production designs on demand to incorporate the latest cybersecurity protection.<\/p><div class=\"elect-post-content-2\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"elect-393835059\"><div id=\"DFP-EW-InRead1-Mobile\">\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> if ($(window).width() <= 768) { googletag.display('DFP-EW-InRead1-Mobile'); } <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>The OS features immutable and deterministic runtines, fault tolerance, modular updates, simplified secure boot implementation, full disk encryption, boot modes for manufactruing, recovery and test and live NFS-mounted extensions to reflect code changes instantly on target hardware without rebuilds or flashing cycles.<\/p>\n<p>At Microelectronics UK, the company showed an edge AI application built on the Avocado OS, running on a Qualcomm Dragonwing QCM6490 chipset. It showed the same application compiled to the Avocado OS running on an\u00a0 Nvidia Jetson Orin AI processor module and demonstrated how it can be used to migrate Linux-based applications from one hardware target to another.<\/p>\n<p>The Avocado OS is also ready for use in production-grade hardware such as the Advantech ICAM-540, an AI camera based on the Nvidia Jetson Orin module, added the company.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"YgBuau74w4\"><p><a rel=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicsweekly.com\/news\/uk-government-to-invest-in-semiconductor-supply-chain-2025-09\/\">UK government to invest in semiconductor supply chain<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;UK government to invest in semiconductor supply chain&#8221; &#8212; Electronics Weekly\" src=\"https:\/\/www.electronicsweekly.com\/news\/uk-government-to-invest-in-semiconductor-supply-chain-2025-09\/embed\/#?secret=0JbfiymmYk#?secret=YgBuau74w4\" data-secret=\"YgBuau74w4\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scalable Linux tool launched by Peridio is an open-source OS designed to migrate designs from protoype to production. 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