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Linux In Space: Red Hat Rides The Rocket
neiljt writes "BBC News
have a
piece
on NASA experiments to use IP for space missions. The article is a little low-tech, but more details available from NASA (OMNI).
Is this the first Red Hat in space?" It's worth pointing out as well that Debian made the ride nearly six years ago. Still, great news.
...but the shuttle won't crash if it's DDoSed will it? :P
"The project will allow mission scientists to use a standard web browser to monitor spacecraft and to swap data with them or their crew."
So what happens when 7337 HaXorz find the conveniently unsercured web interface which lets them control the shuttle robot arm?
one thing's for sure. It's much better than the 1970's computers running NASA's systems now.
insert half-arsed joke about script-kiddies hacking the space shuttle here in accordance with slashdot standard lameness protocol.
And some of these drones are actually going to get modded +5 funny. *sigh*
Blearf. Blearf, I say.
Redhat Linux... Extreme computing that's out of this world!
Lets see how well your 733T PDA works in a space enviroment after its been hit with a few cosmic rays. Idiot.
also was launched into space (or near?), even by linux fans. Sky is not as far as it used to be.
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/clark.html
i'd love to see the traceroute output on that one ;).
smd4985
"Redhat rides NASAs Rocket"
"Debian eats NASAs pineapple"
"Mandrake tries to put the pin back in."
Outdoor digital photography, mostly in New Engl
all the ip packets they got were discarded by the firewall as martian.
Here is the proof.
From the DWN (January 21st):
[...]
Debian older than Humanity? Tomas Pospisek reported that the Debian Swirl can be cleary seen on one of the pictures taken by NASA's orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. For example, check the lower right hand corner of the image. Perhaps this is proof that the seeds for Debian were sowed long before the dawn of humanity.
[...]
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