Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 04:12:50 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Joseph Mallett <jmallett@NewGold.NET>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NASA's Operating System? Message-ID: <20010907041249.C8700@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20010906133409.D18228@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:34:09PM -0700 References: <20010906182627.C29203@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010906115638.00c7f100@localhost> <20010906184913.D87722@NewGold.NET> <20010906133409.D18228@xor.obsecurity.org>
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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: NASA's Operating System? Date: Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:34:09PM -0700 > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 06:49:13PM +0000, Joseph Mallett wrote: > > According to someone I talked to at LinuxExpo '97, they used Debian Linux > > fairly widely. Take it for what it's worth, which is hearsay, but I got it > > from a hopefully reliable person. > > I'm sure they don't use it for flight systems -- at least, I PRAY TO > ALMIGHTY GOD IN HEAVEN that they don't :-) Would you rather they used (horrors) Windows? This is a reference to the story I had read somewhere about US Navy migrating ship-control systems to NT. I seem to have failed locating the URL again, but if I find it, it'll be posted here :-P /me runs to hide -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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