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Tux Enlisted for U.S. Defense Program
An anonymous reader writes "Linux is a key part of the Army's massive $200B FCS (Future Computing System) initiative, it seems. RTOS vendor LynuxWorks was chosen to provide the OS for 18 weapons platforms under development, because its LynxOS-178 real-time OS can run Linux binaries -- including the "common operating environment" that Boeing is developing for FCS."
It will be. Then in comes SCO and takes the credit
Scully: Should we arrest David Copperfield?
Mulder: Yes we should, but not for this.
Nothing says "feel-good bluegrass tech movement" like becoming part of the military industrial complex.
- Rory [Microsoft Employee] | Free dirt: neopoleon.com
Uniform of the Day is now a Tuxedo.
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
of a penguin with a cigarette hanging out of the side of its mouth, cradling an assault rifle and wearing a helmet with 'Born to kill' written on it.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Colonel Panic: Not just a reaction to incorrect artillery coordinates anymore!
Do you like German cars?
Launching a missle at someone might be construed as distributing the binary.
That's not what Al told me...
If they'd put Windows on it, you've have bitched and jumped up and down.
They put Linux on it, and you're still wining.
Perhaps the world doesn't actually give a stuff of the opinions of a load of geeks in their bedrooms?
Hmmm Tux joins the military.
;)
All the hippy hacker types will be fuming. They might even have to get their hair cur
Philip
Signatures are broken
I hate it when I come up with a sure-fire, can't miss post and blow it with a typo or incorrect usage that ruins the whole thing.
Like the time I posted about a girl who drank so much she blew chunks, but I put "drunks" instead of "chunks", which changed the meaning slightly.
Raise your children as if you were teaching them to raise your grandchildren, because you are.
Thank goodness Slashdot doesn't have an icon for Liunx in the military. Knowing Taco, it would probably be Tux wearing an adorable little camoflage outfit, in the same vein as the Tux wearing a suit icon.
Adorable.
Taco, about that Tux in a suit icon as a symbol for Linux in the business realm, Tux himself would not be wearing the suit. He's already got a tuxedo, for chrissakes. It would be the suits who were USING Linux. Linux/Tux himself would not be the one changing himself to suit the situation, it would be the suits.
Mod down people who tell people how to mod in their sigs
Well, linux implements division by zero. So there.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
You fit a missile with a Linux kernel. Does this mean that every time you distribute the software by nuking someone you have to drop a copy of the source code in the crater afterwards :)?
Hmmmmmm..... Deep fried and look like Squirrel.
The Tuxinator; he'll never stop EVER, until you are dead!
Or his time_t overflows, whichever comes soonest.
Hmm, in a way I have to agree with that as well. Now that I think about it, I think it doesnt matter what OS that runs your weapons, war will never leave any winners, both sides will lose Someones been playing a lot of tic-tac-toe!
http://www.nata2.info/humor/flash/switchlinux3.swf
Linux is so versatile, it's amazing we didn't switch to it before to run our armies of robots :)
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