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Each distribution is created and backed by a single commercial entity.

The approach to defect fixes and CVEs is reactive.

The focus is on innovation (update/upgrade) - “stable” releases with little or no focus on long-term support.

Various levels of participation are available, given the need for technical contributions and governance activities.

Every open source community is different but follows a similar organizational structure, with leaders, maintainers, contributors, and users.

Contemporary successful projects are based on open source technologies and community innovation.

The system is built into critical infrastructure, and the economics of customization, reliability, and other design requirements drive higher costs that need to be spread over a longer lifecycle, usually five to 10 years or even beyond.

System design constraints resulting from limited hardware and memory necessitate customizations and software built from source code.

These are special-purpose systems, often with specific capabilities and no direct interaction with the end user.

Distributors often include long-term support for only certain common components, such as unmodified software, and common usage considered typical for the platform in use cases with relatively short product lifecycles (three to five years).Everything is expected to be used in a purely binary environment by IT staff and general users.The user is limited to selecting a configuration or edition, installing additional software packages, and handling the administrative configuration of individual items.The OS vendor handles the design and compilation of the OS environment.These are truly general-purpose operating systems, not built for single-purpose use for a specified device.Can start with a silicon vendor SDK or be based on enterprise Linux distributions (e.g., Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS) or embedded Linux projects (OpenWrt, Buildroot, Yocto Project).Developed in-house, using free and open source components (fork of the community work).MontaVista CGX (Carrier Grade Express) Linux.

May contain proprietary components that were not upstreamed.Free to use, as an enabler for hardware sales.Customer ready and usually delivered as an SDK focused on hardware-specific features.