long term support release
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Jan 28 14:09:38 UTC 2008
Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>>> I wouldn't choose Linux to control a spacecraft or a nuclear power
>>> plant, but I didn't hesitate to chose Linux to control robots in a lab,
>>> nor do I hesitate to chose Fedora to host "my personal mission's"
>>> mission-critical data" ;)
>> That's just you. Some people[1] think it's okay to let Linux control a
>> spacecraft[2].
>>
>> [1] http://www.nasa.gov
>> [2] http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5714800202.html
>>
>
> More than just NASA... a good many satellites from many countries (JP
> and I think 1 or 2 Euro countries) and some of the planned rovers use
> linux. Though none of them have been COTS as these articles say.
>
There are plenty of heavy duty jobs on Linux these days - Avaya phone
switches, F5's BigIP load balancers, etc. would be mission critical in a
lot of places. But I don't think they use the fedora updates... And I
doubt if they want linux to be "interesting".
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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