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- Lurk3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I think its time to KERNAL PANIC
- g0atbutt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5sweet. An OPEN SOURCE MISSLE DEFENSE SYSTEM. They have to release the source to comply with the licensing.
- Anth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Heh, Linux is everywhere. I was on a Song (a subsidary of Delta) flight the other day, and they booted up the IFE (in flight entertainment - a LCD in the back of the seat in front of you). And it was a mini-computer, booting into RED HAT. I saw TUX in the upper right, and of course, my friend a few rows back says "Hey Anth, you give everyone a lecture on how these TVs boot into linux?" Of course by this time I had...
- Stenosis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3There is more LINUX in DoD than most would think. A lot of it is in embedded applications. VxWorks is another biggie. Need a real time OS to kill NOW...takes too long to kill with Windows.
- kinderstod, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Sweet, so when there's a missile headed at the US, the engineer's will have to wade through 43 million forum posts to figure out how to get the missile chip to correctly work with the current kernel version, only to come across 'RTFM n00b LOL'.
- isewise, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.ubergeek.tv/article.php?pid=54
- antoniojvr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I work for DoD and you would be surprised how much Linux is being used. In fact, I worked on a recent missile that still runs HPUX.
- reggiedarden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2One word..... Missileubuntu
- kinderstod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@antoniojvr: Hopefully you weren't asking that as some sort of high school insult :P I'm a software developer, commercial not the open source hobby kind. I wouldn't trust my own code enough to control a missile though.
- ajh1138, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Do we need to hear every time some organization chooses Linux for something? We get it! Linux good!
- fyre2012, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2it's the obvious choice for all your global domina^H^H^H^H^Hefence needs
- mbwilliamson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wonder what happens when you try to access 0xDEADBEEF :)
- reggiedarden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1sudo apt-get install destorythetarget
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hahah, man I Sooo wish they chose Win Me and then put Bonzai buddy on it.... Heeheheh, Im feeling alittle sadistic.. =)
- satrano, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1re istormy: Too bad there is no such thing as Real-Time Free- or OpenBSD, nor any companies that provide the level of support a deployment like this demands.
Even Wind River, who bought BSDi, is now partially a Linux shop. - antoniojvr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ kinderstod
Most of us have a sense of humor, a love for Sci-Fi, and many post graduate degrees :)
What do you do for a living? - LinkTiger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Some people need to settle down with the "GPL will destroy the world" comments. Even the full-on GPL only requires that the source be distributed with the binary. So unless the DoD decides to put their missile defense system up onto the public internet for anyone to use, the source code is probably not going to end up in the wrong hands.
- Aooogah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Unix and BSD have been in use by the defense industry for quite some time. The Pentagon database is Unix-based. This is first time I've heard them use Linux though, at least on this scale.
- kinderstod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@antoniojvr: You work for the DoD and you have Ackbar as your av? Oh god we're *****
- dontbecreepy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The Birth of Skynet begins…
Exxx-cellent! - Draconiko, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3lol wonder what a windows-based missle defense program would be like...
- spartan777, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2what, like they would have chosen windows or something? hahahahahahahaha...
"MR. PRESIDENT, I gave the order to launch the nuke at the terrorists, but, well, we got a bsod. it say there was a system error at 0x00000B534. so ehhh... what do we do now? I do only have sp1 installed, maybe we should've gone with sp2?" - AhronZombi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1i never thought id say this, but open source may destroy the world now that its going into missles
- Ahab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Linux is being used for the simulations used for development, at least, that's what I got out of reading the article. Hate to bum everybody out, but I don't think they are using it for that actual missle system (firing rockets) -- it would be cool if they were.
- spartan777, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0bosse:
who's "they?" i hope you don't mean our engineers. - Gambit-gyouza4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0 Lockheed. A name every Japanese knows...
- ohsh1rt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Ahaha, props to isewise, forgot about this.
-jeffrey - modularsky, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1kinderstod FTW
- Niao, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0>>Exxx-cellent!
We can hope for a segfault.
Actually, if you want something interesting to look for, watch "Sentou Yousei Yukikaze". The AI driven jets make decisions and they're often over-ridden via a unix command prompt.
...Though the Yukikaze itself seems to be the one doing most of the coding, which rather disturbs me. - notkevin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"I work for DoD and you would be surprised how much Linux is being used. In fact, I worked on a recent missile that still runs HPUX."
Eh? What does one have to do with the other? - Fipxop, on 04/27/2009, -1/+0Egads. I'd have hoped they'd use OpenBSD or FreeBSD.
- barbobot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Lockheed Martin? I thought linux was communist.
(Its a joke dont read into it unless you want small children to eat you whil you sleep.) - bosse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I wish that they'd use Windows or SCO Unix in the bombs instead (they deserve to be blown up) but then again, even the crazy bombmakers should have the same rights to use Linux as anyone else.
- Cerberus047, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0hmmm what would a missle defense program with windows look like............ "sir the aisins are firing nukes at us" "deploy the missles in defnese" "firing in 3....2....WTF blue screen of death..... nooooooo"
- birdadderley, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Who cares... this it not news. We've use SGI boxes, Suse, and Red Hat all of the time. The only problem with using any *nix in a DSS certified classified environment is that ton's of logging features need to be turned on; SNARE is required, and the way you have it setup, it will quickly generate hundreds of megabytes of logs.
- 2004SkylineGTR, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Well, at least they didn't choose windows.
- rudinz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"I think its time to KERNAL PANIC"
Agree with u....... :) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0this missle brought to you by the open source revolotion......pain will rain down apon your little heads
http://www.frontlinetech.blogspot.com - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Good Choice, We sure don't want the Blue Screen of Death when one of those puppies launch or about to destroy enemy missiles.
- zenghost, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0oh great. now the bsod wont be able to stop them... :[
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