Open Robotics announces Red Hat Enterprise Linux Tier 1 support for ROS
The Open Source Robotics Foundation, Inc. is pleased to announce that Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is now a Tier 1-supported platform for ROS.
Tier 1-supported platforms are those platforms that we provide the highest level of support for. We subject the entirety of the ROS distribution to our full Continuous Integration suite every day and for every change for these platforms. We also run performance tests, and the full set of packaging jobs to produce binary packages for users. Our maintainers prioritise errors and bugs discovered in our Tier 1 platforms and ensure they are resolved quickly.
RHEL becoming a Tier 1-supported platform reflects a commitment by both Open Robotics and Red Hat, including through contributing engineering resources to ROS, to providing roboticists with the software they need to build and deploy robotics systems on proven, reliable platforms that meet their needs. By expanding the list of fully-supported platforms we are ensuring that the community has a range of options available, and can choose the best platform for their needs.
In addition to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we are also pleased to announce that Fedora Linux, the community-maintained upstream project that drives innovation into Red Hat Enterprise Linux, is now a Tier 3-supported platform for ROS. Tier 3 platforms are primarily maintained by the community, and we do not run the regular battery of CI for them ourselves. However we do in general try to work with these platforms in our buildfarm, making them easier to use than other platforms of a lower support tier.
