Elektrobit and Canonical announce EB corbos Linux – built on Ubuntu

Elektrobit and Canonical announced EB corbos Linux – built on Ubuntu, an industry first bringing the largest open-source Linux community to automotive software. Available immediately from Elektrobit, the new solution provides OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers with the benefits and flexibility of an open-source operating system for developing electronic control units (ECUs) in software-defined vehicles. It integrates Ubuntu, provided by Canonical, in a solution that addresses the specific needs of the automotive sector.  

EB corbos Linux – built on Ubuntu will enable the application of open-source Linux to ECU application development while ensuring compliance with processes needed for automotive mass production across development and in-vehicle systems with embedded devices. 

With the increasing complexity of software-defined vehicles, carmakers need software that optimizes resources to speed up development. EB corbos Linux – built on Ubuntu, offers a rich and flexible open-source development environment. It enables carmakers to leverage advancements already made by the massive community of world-class open-source developers while developing their own innovations. EB corbos Linux – built on Ubuntu fills a major gap in the functional architectures of software-defined vehicles, giving them more flexibility as well as access to a large pool of experienced, motivated application developers. 

EB corbos Linux – built on Ubuntu is a completely customizable software package with a software development kit (SDK), tooling and source code. Highly modular common binary packages are combined and configured in an application-specific solution.  
“The automotive industry is at a point in its development where embracing open source has huge potential benefits,” said Bertrand Boisseau, automotive sector lead at Canonical.

The open-source nature of EB corbos Linux – built-on Ubuntu makes it simple to study and inspect, speeding up development. Elektrobit provides long-term security and hardware maintenance, giving customers an automotive ECU solution from a single source, leveraging open-source software’s advantages. Customers gain added value with security updates and issue resolution during the complete life cycle of their automotive projects.   

Jens Petersohn, director, Linux product management, Elektrobit said, “Carmakers have been asking for an operating system that will provide the same capabilities and flexibilities that we’re seeing in cloud-based or enterprise software development. With EB corbos Linux – built on Ubuntu, it is now here.”