Zephyr at 10 Years: Survey Feedback – Kate Stewart & Hilary Carter, The Linux Foundation

Open Source Summit North America 2026 and Embedded Linux Conference brought together the open source community in Minneapolis from May 18-20, 2026. As part of the Zephyr track, Kate Stewart and Hilary Carter from The Linux Foundation presented “ Zephyr at 10 Years: Survey Feedback .” The session looked back at why Zephyr was created, how the project has grown over the past decade, and what RTOS users want the project to focus on in the years ahead. Ten years ago, Zephyr set out to solve a problem many embedded teams quietly struggled with: how to build dependable real-time systems without bein