IoT is quickly becoming omnipresent in our day to day lives, but many times we find that platforms are obsolete as soon as they hit the market, or at the very least get little to no security or feature updates. By adapting existing Linux distribution development practices, IoT can both improve its security, and expand its lifecycle with minimal overhead while adding features and extending devices lifecycles. In this talk Peter Robinson of Fedora and Jim Perrin of CentOS will outline a 'gold standard' workflow for IoT and maker hardware, from getting hardware support into the distro, to the lifecycle of the applications living on the appliance without endusers ending up with an expensive doorstop.
