From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 6 18:12:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3528737B406 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 18:12:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b024.otenet.gr [195.167.121.152]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f871CNA28105; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 04:12:23 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f871CoD09577; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 04:12:50 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 04:12:50 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Joseph Mallett , Brett Glass , j mckitrick , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NASA's Operating System? Message-ID: <20010907041249.C8700@hades.hell.gr> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010906133409.D18228@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:34:09PM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org From: Kris Kennaway 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