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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."
Imagine the UT2003 framerate on that sucker!
Dam, you suck. Dam.
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Well thank you, that helped some.
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BTW I'd like to point out that most Europeans don't hate the US or Americans. Not at all. And speaking for myself just one sec. I love NY, Boston and large parts of the US. I have plenty US friends and don't think BUDWEISER is so bad a beer at all...
What we "hate" if that's the word to use, is the effects of extremely hazardous foreign politics. And right now I'm not really thinking about Iraq...
I currently live in El Salvador. For those not totally unaware of anything happening outside their borders, that should say enough. The perspective you gain by living in any Central American country gives a special flavor to airings of a US president venting against "terrorists and dictators".
Or those boso's saying the UN has failed, or some other idiots saying the International Court in De Hague is against US interests
I'm all for fighting against dictators. If only that was remotely on the US foreign agenda...
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Only if you don't flunk out.
Only if your adviser didn't screw up and you still need some credits.
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