[$] Automotive Grade Linux and a distribution for cars

At the 2015 Automotive Linux Summit in Tokyo, Dan Cauchy from the Linux Foundation (LF) kicked off the first day's program with an announcement: that the LF's Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) workgroup has decided to build its own Linux distribution, which it plans to run as an ongoing, long-term project. While the desire for a workgroup to create a distribution tailored to its needs is nothing new, the announcement had several in the crowd wondering what this decision meant for Tizen IVI—which, up until now, has served as the reference distribution for AGL. Tizen, of course, is also an LF-hosted project, and it has made in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) one of its high-priority use cases.