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Australian Defence Force Builds $1.7m Linux-Based Flight Simulator

Posted by timothy on from the send-some-love-to-flightgear dept.

scrubl writes "The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has revealed its latest flight simulator runs on SUSE Linux-based clusters of Opteron servers and uses an open source graphics platform. The Defence Science and Technology Organisation's (DSTO) Air Operations Simulation Centre in Melbourne creates virtual worlds that allow pilots to experience real-world combat situations without leaving the ground. The visuals software was written in OpenGL, using commercial and open source scene graph engines and making 'heavy use of OpenGL Shader Language programs.'"

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  1. My first post by lul_wat · · Score: -1, Troll

    SECOND POST Yusss.

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    Divide a cake by zero. Is it still a cake?
  2. OOS should never be used for war by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's a disgrace for to kernel hackers everywhere to have their knowledge and sweat used to run the machine of war.

    War is just another profit-making venture for the rich.

    1. Re:OOS should never be used for war by CarpetShark · · Score: -1, Troll

      Agreed. Personally I'd prefer the GPL to include an anti-warfare clause. Losing the ability to have your software included in distros or combined with other GPL'd software for the sake of a few militant types is too much, but if the clause was in the GPL from the start, that problem wouldn't exist.

      Then again, RMS is pretty aggressive sometimes, so it'd be very strange if he "got" the need for an anti-warfare clause.

  3. Can it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Defense against nigger's?