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US Navy buys Apple as Linux Platform

Posted by michael on from the apples-under-the-sea dept.

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."

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  1. number one by Councilor+Hart · · Score: 5, Funny

    didn't even know the USN was running Linux on front-line ships.
    Do you think that the rest of the world would fear the USA military so much if their front-line troops were running windows?

    1. Re:number one by MacGod · · Score: 5, Funny
      Do you think that the rest of the world would fear the USA military so much if their front-line troops were running windows?

      I would. Hell, one BSOD could light off every missle in their payload, each randomly pointed at a different location!

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  2. Uh-oh.. by MImeKillEr · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now SCO's going to have to sue the Navy and Apple.

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    1. Re:Uh-oh.. by MacGod · · Score: 5, Funny
      Now SCO's going to have to sue the Navy and Apple.

      In other news today: The U.S. Navy today responded to a lawsuit by privately-held company SCO by invading their headquarters, and bombarding it into the ground with cruise missles.

      When reached for comment, Admiral trigger-happy said "Fuck it. They were pissing everybody off. I just got bored."

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    2. Re:Uh-oh.. by ENOENT · · Score: 4, Funny

      Of course OSX is souperior. In order to be made into soup, it helps to be dead, and we all know that OSX is derived from BSD...

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  3. Finally... by shachart · · Score: 4, Funny

    Finally the Penguin will submerge at sea... :)

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  4. SCO vs. Navy by wowbagger · · Score: 5, Funny

    SCO: You owe us $699 per computer!
    Navy: OK - how about we give you half a million and you keep the change?
    SCO: GREAT!
    Navy: OK, tell us the address to send it to.
    SCO: <gives corporate address>
    Navy: Tomahawk targeting confirmed - you have a go for launch.

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  5. Re:This is NOT helping... by MohammedNiyalSayeed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please check with a network time server. Your troll is off by about 4 years. HTH. YHBT. YHL. KTHX. BBYE.

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  6. Obligatory Anti-US Humor by Alethes · · Score: 1, Funny

    I have to do this to eliminate any vent of frustration that the US-hatin' Europeans here could have had:

    1) It looks like Linus and G. W. Bush share the same goals for world domination.

    and...

    2) The subs were going to be running Mandrake, but the Congress-approved renaming to "Freedrake" just didn't sound right.

  7. Re:not really surprising by zpok · · Score: 3, Funny

    "When you're on a sub that requires every inch of space to be utilised, these are attributes that make a computing system very attractive.
    Once Apple deploys the G5s into these puppies, I think there's going to be a lot of organisations looking at their present hardware rigs in a very critical light."

    "Ensign, engage Silent Mode"
    "Aye captain, let me just switch on these 250 fans here."

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  8. Navy Surplus? by macguiguru · · Score: 2, Funny

    So... what you're saying is... in a year or so we'll see a bunch of used XServes available as military surplus? YEAAAH BABY! Daddy's gettin an XServe! WHOO HOO!

  9. Re:Why Apple harware, and why not OS X by rreay · · Score: 2, Funny

    Everyone knows that the MOST important factor is 'quietness', and we all know that's where apple really takes the cake!
    Not with the XServe they don't. They sound like a vacuum cleaner with a sore throat.

  10. Re:Trolling the silly responses by bursch-X · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can't wait until Panther comes out, so I don't have to hear Steve Jobs saying "Jagwyre" anymore...

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