All I can say is these devices are not built to be radiation tolerant to say nothing of radiation hardened. Keep in mind the laptops (not used for safety critical things) on the ISS have to rebooted daily because of Single Event Upset (SEU)s that lock them up.
Interesting time to talk about Software Defined Radios.
NASA's SCaN Testbed with 3 Software Defined Radios is launching onboard the Japanese HTV-3 Unmanned cargo vehicle in 15 days. (July 21st)
It's an experimental payload that will be bolted to the exterior of the International Space Station and perform communications experiments with the 3 SDR's contained in the payload.
For labs/installations of many machines, or people who are dolts - um I mean newbies, I always recommend whatever the local flavour of Redhat/Suse/Mandrake/whatever.
However, for a few choice machines, machines that you spend more time with then should be legally allowed, I always recommend slackware (for a non high bandwidth connection) or gentoo (with high bandwidth). The flexibility of these last too is very rewarding for anyone who wants an uber customized Linux box.
And especially with slackware, you gain a lot of knowledge and familiarity with how things works, and how to fix things. This knowledge pays off it's debt quickly. For example, you might have a redhat buddy that has some problems with configuration GUI X, and you just go and fix it by hand.
LFS is interesting, but what's the big difference between it and gentoo? Just an extra step that's not very practical unless you're making your own distro.
Patrick, will you ever include graphical configuration utilities that do not easily allow manual editing of config files/scripts? This is one of my biggest reasons I do not use RedHat or any RedHat derived distributions. (e.g./etc/rc.d)
I have used Slackware steady for over three years. I must say that I love Slack. I recommend it to people that I see have great UNIX/Linux potential because slackware makes the user learn. I am not a biggot. My belief is "to each his own", that's why we should all be happy that there are so many distributions. I recommend that everyone experiment with other distributions to find one that really suits them best. I believe that the hacker spirit really exemplifies "to each his own", and outways distribution unity. Keep up the good work Patrick, we love it!
Where can someone with C experience learn about how to make a 3d software engine? What good books are there on the subject of 3d rendering? (Not OpenGL/Direct3d books)
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All I can say is these devices are not built to be radiation tolerant to say nothing of radiation hardened. Keep in mind the laptops (not used for safety critical things) on the ISS have to rebooted daily because of Single Event Upset (SEU)s that lock them up.
Interesting time to talk about Software Defined Radios.
NASA's SCaN Testbed with 3 Software Defined Radios is launching onboard the Japanese HTV-3 Unmanned cargo vehicle in 15 days. (July 21st)
It's an experimental payload that will be bolted to the exterior of the International Space Station and perform communications experiments with the 3 SDR's contained in the payload.
http://spaceflightsystems.grc.nasa.gov/SOPO/SCO/SCaNTestbed/Payload/
For labs/installations of many machines, or people who are dolts - um I mean newbies, I always recommend whatever the local flavour of Redhat/Suse/Mandrake/whatever.
However, for a few choice machines, machines that you spend more time with then should be legally allowed, I always recommend slackware (for a non high bandwidth connection) or gentoo (with high bandwidth). The flexibility of these last too is very rewarding for anyone who wants an uber customized Linux box.
And especially with slackware, you gain a lot of knowledge and familiarity with how things works, and how to fix things. This knowledge pays off it's debt quickly. For example, you might have a redhat buddy that has some problems with configuration GUI X, and you just go and fix it by hand.
LFS is interesting, but what's the big difference between it and gentoo? Just an extra step that's not very practical unless you're making your own distro.
I think there should be a central anachronim repository so that there aren't so many conflicts. MOO, RPG, etc.
Patrick, will you ever include graphical configuration utilities that do not easily allow manual editing of config files/scripts? This is one of my biggest reasons I do not use RedHat or any RedHat derived distributions. (e.g. /etc/rc.d)
I have used Slackware steady for over three years. I must say that I love Slack. I recommend it to people that I see have great UNIX/Linux potential because slackware makes the user learn. I am not a biggot. My belief is "to each his own", that's why we should all be happy that there are so many distributions. I recommend that everyone experiment with other distributions to find one that really suits them best. I believe that the hacker spirit really exemplifies "to each his own", and outways distribution unity. Keep up the good work Patrick, we love it!
Where can someone with C experience learn about how to make a 3d software engine? What good books are there on the subject of 3d rendering? (Not OpenGL/Direct3d books)