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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."
At least now we know it wont be the OS that's at fault when that dude turns to the systems and goes "WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION?!?!?!?!"
"You're shooting for the Funny mod, but think about it."
Yeah - "shooting" with my DOD Tux-Powered DeathRifle 9000.
"The precursor to the web we're both using right now was pentagon (ARPA) funded."
I didn't know that, and I am going to UNPLUG MY COMPUTER RIGHT NOW.
- Rory [Microsoft Employee] | Free dirt: neopoleon.com
I'm not sure what you mean by adding the word "publically". Distribution is distribution.
Parnell: Ever been to Utah? Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too. When they canceled the project it almost did me in. One day my mind was full to bursting. The next day - nothing. Swept away. But I'll show them. I had a lobotomy in the end.
Otto: Lobotomy? Isn't that for loonies?
Parnell: Not at all.Friend of mine had one. Designer of the neutron bomb. You ever hear of the neutron bomb? Destroys people - leaves buildings standing. Fits in a suitcase. It's so small, no one knows it's there until - BLAMMO. Eyes melt, skin explodes, everybody dead. So immoral, working on the thing can drive you mad. That's what happened to this friend of mine. So he had a lobotomy. Now he's well again.