From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 18 23:26:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from irwanhadi.dorms.usu.edu (irwanhadi.dorms.usu.edu [129.123.230.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4319E37B407 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 23:26:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from irwanhadi@phxby.com) Received: by irwanhadi.dorms.usu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 38472B42C6; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 00:30:12 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 00:30:12 -0600 From: Irwan Hadi To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Ground Station Message-ID: <20010719003012.A7876@phxby.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Our university's electrical engineering department is designing a mini satellite to be launched. For this satellite of course we need a ground station to control the satellite. In the original blue plan, the ground station is designed to use a SUN Sparc Station with SunOS. But of course it is very risky to use an old Sparc Station to be the ground station of the satellite, since if the terminal crash, we can say bye bye to the thousands of dollars satellite. As right now, the ground station hasn't been built, is it possible if we use FreeBSD in this project to be the ground station O/S ? because it has some similarities with SunOS (the same UFS filesystem for example) ? How about the reability of FreeBSD in the super critical environment like this as the O/S mustn't crash or hang at all ? Does anyone has any suggestion in building the ground station then (hardware, security, networking) ? Thank you in advance for your reply. I really appreciate that. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message