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Date:      Fri, 7 Sep 2001 04:12:50 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Joseph Mallett <jmallett@NewGold.NET>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NASA's Operating System?
Message-ID:  <20010907041249.C8700@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20010906133409.D18228@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:34:09PM -0700
References:  <20010906182627.C29203@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010906115638.00c7f100@localhost> <20010906184913.D87722@NewGold.NET> <20010906133409.D18228@xor.obsecurity.org>

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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject: Re: NASA's Operating System?
Date: Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:34:09PM -0700

> On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 06:49:13PM +0000, Joseph Mallett wrote:
> > According to someone I talked to at LinuxExpo '97, they used Debian Linux 
> > fairly widely. Take it for what it's worth, which is hearsay, but I got it 
> > from a hopefully reliable person.
> 
> I'm sure they don't use it for flight systems -- at least, I PRAY TO
> ALMIGHTY GOD IN HEAVEN that they don't :-)

Would you rather they used (horrors) Windows?

This is a reference to the story I had read somewhere about US Navy
migrating ship-control systems to NT.  I seem to have failed locating
the URL again, but if I find it, it'll be posted here :-P

/me runs to hide

-giorgos


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