Lockheed Martin Selects Linux for Missile Defense

m3lt writes "Business Wire is reporting that Concurrent announced today that Lockheed Martin Space Systems has selected RedHawk(TM) Linux as the operating system for their United States Army Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) program." From the article: "Lockheed Martin selected RedHawk for the THAAD program due to the precision and guaranteed response time of Concurrent's RedHawk Linux real-time operating system. Only RedHawk Linux was able to ensure the high frame rates required in their HIL simulation without frame overruns, thereby ensuring the highest quality of system test."

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que the microsoft crash jokes

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And now, the flood of missle-crash-with-windows-os jokes, even though they're talking about the simulation and not the onboard missile control system.

Re:Arms

[StarvingSE]

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
-- Bill Gates, 1981

Re:I was killed by Linux

[Anonymous Coward]

Haha.. are you for real? A "stable democracy" in five years? You yanks really don't understand what's going in Iraq, do you?

Let me tell you what they won't tell you on Fox News (or CNN, MSNBC, AlHurra or any other US government propaganda outlet, "support the troops" you know). Iraq is in a state of civil war. You get one side of the conflict in the US media (Shias suicide bombing yanks and Sunnis), but outside the "green zone", where US journalists seldom dare venture, there is a full blown civil war being fought.

After the initial phases of the occuptation, even though many Iraqis were extremely displeased with the US, there was a slim hope for reconciliation. It didn't take the US forces long to fuck the situation up beyond all hope though. As an example, take the four "contractors" (a euphemism for hired killers and mercs) who went gung ho cowboy in Falluja. When they started killing civillians, the inhabitants of Falluja responded (rightfully so) by killing these yankee dogs. The US response was to raze Falluja, one of the most modern cities in Iraq with over 300k inhabitants, to the ground, on the pretense that they were combatting insurgents.

Now there is no hope of reconciliation with the people of Falluja and elsewhere in Iraq who have witnessed the true nature of the yankee dogs. There will be no peace with the occupying forces, and there certainly won't be a "stable democracy" (or rather a US puppet government). Instead there will be bloody war and probably a lot of Iranian influence. Way to go yanks. Your lust for blood and riches has once again improved the world. Fuck you, and fuck your family. Greedy yankee dog.

Re:Arms

[Ucklak]

Good point. I don't advocate war either but I do advocate term limits for politicians. What was that saying about old men debating while young boys die??? I don't remember but something to that effect.

What is this hatred for the military? It was the militia that kicked the Brits ass (with outside help of course but we American colonists were fed up with it) othewise we'd be bowing to the Queen right now. Organized military came from that.
This pacifist BS needs to stop. There are plenty of scavengers that want to take from us and if we don't have that image of being a bad ass, they're going to do damage.

And what's up with the San Francisco sissies banning guns? Isn't that a 2nd amendment right? I say remove remove the civil obedience oppressors (cops) from there then.