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Tux Enlisted for U.S. Defense Program

Posted by samzenpus on from the free-as-in-bombs dept.

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."

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  1. Re:is linux guilty of murder now? by LWATCDR · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No more so than cars, truck, aluminum, steel, or coffee is. All of which is used by the military around the world, for good or evil.

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