Linux Powers Military UGV

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday February 1, 2006 @04:32PM from the what-could-go-wrong dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Linux powers a new autonomous unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) that learns routes by following along behind foot-soldiers, after which it can retrace the route solo, avoiding obstacles. iRobot's "R-Gator" UGV is based on John Deere's 658cc, diesel-powered M-Gator military utility vehicle platform, with control, navigation, and object-avoidance systems based on BlueCat Linux from LynuxWorks. I wonder how Linux idealists feel about their cute little OS being deployed in machinery of war?"

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Re:Idealist aren't necessarily pacifists by killjoe · 2006-02-01 22:17 · Score: 0, Troll

"Just ask some of the poor folks in N. Korea,"

Those guys are going to get old waiting for GW to free them from their evil opressor. Too bad they don't have oil or something else we want.

Ah well they can wait in line, after we "free" the iranians, syrians and palestenians we might get around to them.

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evil is as evil does