NASA still use a lot of legacies in tru64 and Open VMS pretty much 30+ year old mission critical applications. And it's not surprising to keep old hardwares with budget cuts and anti science congressmen dominates US congress.
Zak Elep <[email protected]> wrote: >On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Gideon Guillen <[email protected]> >wrote: >> My guess is that the other reason why they switched to Linux is that >> hardware that is certified for use in space is older than what is used else >> where (consumer and enterprise). That's why they were using Windows XP until >> the switch to Debian. Windows 7 probably can't run on those machines. > >Most likely. If they're still using ThinkPad T61p and friends, >they'll get more done with Debian 7 than Windows 7. > >-- >Zak B. Elep || zakame.net >1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D >_________________________________________________ >Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
