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US Navy buys Apple as Linux Platform
Nine Mirrors Turning writes "According to the Register the US Navy has ordered 260 XServe servers running Yellow Dog Linux from Terra Soft Solutions. Terra Soft is the only reseller allowed to resell Apple hardware with a third-party operating system installed. The XServes will be modified by a unnamed third-party and will be running a custom kernel. The XServes are destined for US Navy submarines and will be used for real-time image processing. I do wonder how many will be installed on each sub, though. Are we talking clustering here? I didn't even know the USN was running Linux on front-line ships."
Because if you did, you failed to convey it. The XServe is very thin. It takes up less physical space than similarly powered Sun machines. Period.
Also, if you'd ever seen the inside of an E450, you'd realize that the drive bays don't take up more than 15% of the internal space. There's a lot of empty, unused space in there, which may serve the function of providing air for the CPU(s) to cool, or may be just the result of the industrial designers realizing they had a whole lot of case to fill.
Maybe next time you could make the effort to actually refute something I said, instead of just proving your mastery of Sun's Online Product catalog. Or you could just drop the pedantic argumentative tone, if you just want to change the subject to Sun pricing vs. Apple pricing, and your own personal opinions on SCSI vs. IDE.
/*- Mohammed -*/
Apple didnt put Linux on the XServes. TerraSoft purchased XServes from apple and installed Linux onto them.
Why linux is on there is beyond me, OSX is better suited since it has souperior Multiprocessing and threading to linux in every possible aspect.
Maybe the Navy is too lazy to port their software to OSX.
I wish you'd just hurry up and fucking die.
That was classic intercourse!