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- sirhomer, on 02/28/2008, -1/+77Wow you are wrong on so many levels. I can't believe it's even possible to fit that much wrong in such a short comment. First of all, CentOS is NOT a carbon copy clone of Fedora. It's more of a copy of RHEL. Fedora itself is actually free of charge. Also RHEL itself is not a waste of money, especially if you are using it on imporant systems i.e. in NASA, because you get professional support.
- LeeSoong, on 02/28/2008, -1/+60Your tax dollars at work - sensibly for once !
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=fedo ... - randy2100, on 02/28/2008, -2/+49by anarchytv 44 minutes ago
>Uh, just goes to show government waste. Centos is technically an identical carbon copy clone, compiled from the same sources, and is free.
Duh. Fedora is free. Centos is a clone of RHEL. - FredFredrickson, on 02/28/2008, -1/+38You'll know when Linux is really popular when we stop seeing celebrations every time someone finds out who else is using it.
- ziosatrapo, on 02/28/2008, -5/+40Not so surprising... this is Fedora power!! :D
- slightlygifted, on 02/28/2008, -1/+32(insert large company/organization here) uses linux = front page.
- matx, on 02/28/2008, -3/+30Fedora tends to be the most popular distribution to use scientific areas where control systems such as monitoring a space shuttle is important. Due to the open source and reliability of the Operating System but also the support Fedora has.
- 0260, on 02/28/2008, -1/+27i thought the used hollywood OS, the one that is prone to flash giant red ACCESS DENIED
- faraggi, on 02/28/2008, -1/+27what did you expect? these guys are the geekiest of geeks!
- holyskeleton, on 02/28/2008, -0/+24did i see windows 98?
- exactopposite, on 02/28/2008, -0/+21If you look at the article you will notice that some of the systems are running RHEL, but I would agree that RHEL is not a waste of money if you need the suppport.
- zplot, on 02/28/2008, -6/+27I'm more confident in NASA now. If I were an astronaut on the International Space Station, I'd feel a lot safer knowing that my life is not in the hands of Msft Windows.
- nathansu, on 02/28/2008, -0/+13Posted this on the main blog, thought I'd include it here too :
I work at JPL and basically anyone who is doing serious scientific work has a box that runs some variant of Linux. It's typical for management types to have OSX machines, but I've only encountered a few Windows boxes on lab in any capacity. - SnowCrashv5, on 02/28/2008, -3/+16This isn't about ubuntu. Why does every linux submission to Digg have to be about ubuntu or made into something about ubuntu. Even the people who got started on ubuntu 3-4 years ago are tired of everything being ubuntu.
and by the way, while i'm not an active fedora user, i have been.. and it doesn't take rocket science to operate yum. If you are smart enough to use apt-get and dpkg, you can use yum just fine. If you can't, then the problem isn't yum, it's the user. - cousinzoidfarb, on 02/28/2008, -0/+13Do you have any evidence of this, because my observations suggest that RHEL and Solaris are far more popular than Fedora, but the stuff I've seen is satellite/rover related, not shuttle related.
- SpeedSteamBoat, on 02/28/2008, -0/+13I was turned onto Fedora (after some unfortunate run ins with Gentoo) by a family member who just so happens to work at Google. He tells me Fedora is all over the Google offices. Then he went into this super smart explanation of all the technical advantages of Fedora and why they all love it so much at which point I just went into nod-and-smile-like-you-understand mode. Yeah... he does that a lot.
Moral of the story: For what it's worth Google loves Fedora too. - btraxx, on 02/28/2008, -4/+17They don't use Vista? But Vista is the future!
- secrity, on 02/28/2008, -0/+12As was already mentioned, CentOS is a clone of RHEL, not Fedora. MANY corporations opt to pay for RHEL to get support. I administer 98 servers; 42 are HP-UX, 2 are CentOS, and 54 are RHEL. Patching and adding / removing software on RHEL servers is a breeze, it is done from a single web page. The CentOS servers are totally non-critical servers. It is very nice to open a ticket and get an official Red Hat answer rather than having to search and sift for the answer. All of this doesn't really matter because the story was about using Fedora, which is FREE software.
- mattmcm, on 02/28/2008, -0/+11Sure, you can just hang outside in the sun all day, tossing a ball around, or you can sit at your computer and do something that matters.
- LoveWidescreen, on 02/28/2008, -0/+11Wait -- this is Digg. It's supposed to be "alot" not "a lot"!
How DARE you use correct grammar on Digg, you insensitive clod! - leerayIG88, on 02/28/2008, -0/+11I better hack the mainframe by using a floppy diskette.
- cousinzoidfarb, on 02/28/2008, -0/+10Not really. At JPL, you pay for an OS whether you use it or not. For instance, I ordered a machine and installed Ubuntu on it. JPL still paid for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux license. In fact, their computer/software agreement with Lockheed Martin is the most wasteful think I've heard of. They basically agree to buy a new computer for every employee every 3 years, and buy them from Lockheed for absurd amounts of money, much higher than if I were to go buy it retail. If you want to keep your computer longer than 3 years, they charge extra.
- inactive, on 02/28/2008, -1/+10 As would I...Linux is rock solid.
- inactive, on 02/28/2008, -5/+14New linux users are always surprised other nerds use linux.
Relax, it's obvious, you're a nerd, they are nerds, nerds use linux. - inactive, on 02/28/2008, -0/+9WTF?
- ipfree, on 02/28/2008, -1/+9I have worked on development of equipment to manufacture automotive parts. Most of the cars in US use parts that were made with the help of Linux. We saved a ton of money and made some great robotic machinery.
- ktulu1115, on 02/28/2008, -0/+8my father works for the navy in virginia and he's mentioned fedora is used more often then any other distribution. RHEL is common as well, mainly for the scientific applications.
- Nushio, on 02/28/2008, -1/+8You should try now, I'm not sure when was the last time you used Fedora but we've gone a long way in terms of packaging :-)
- JoshuaH, on 02/29/2008, -0/+7At least they are using Firefox
- init100, on 02/28/2008, -0/+7Your description fits my previous workplace very well. I worked in a supercomputing center available as a national resource to Swedish academic researchers, and we were heavy users of Linux, both on the desktop workstations and servers. One of my managers had a Mac and another had a PC with Windows. Windows was also the OS of choice for the administrative staff (read: secretaries, etc).
- ChayD, on 02/29/2008, -1/+7I think the big thing is that unlike certain other OSes (this "Device" is powered by Microsoft Windows(R)(TM)) you don't see the tux logo splashed over everything that it runs. It's like some of those Chip'n'PIN readers you get in stores have Linux hidden inside, I didn't even know that. Yes, I'm a geek, so that sort of thing is a notable fact. I personally think Linux should get more exposure and credit where it's due.
- andycr512, on 02/29/2008, -0/+6It's not really the OS that costs money; it's the software they include with it, and the support they include.
- inactive, on 02/28/2008, -0/+6I want what he's having.
- DrivinWest, on 02/29/2008, -0/+5I'm a mission controller for the ISS. Windows IS used aboard the ISS but not for anything mission critical - the astronauts have laptops running Windows for personal use and for procedure and timeline review. The laptops that interface directly with the C&C (Command & Control) computers on the ISS run Unix (an obscure flavor which has been highly customized by NASA). The C&C computers themselves run a proprietary OS developed by Honeywell.
On the topic of the C&C computers, as well as the rest of the C&DH (Command & Data Handling) computers aboard the ISS... they're all 386s. This is done on purpose. They consume very little power, produce very little heat, and as Intel is on its nth revision of the chips, they're highly reliable. Thanks to the proprietary OS, distributed computing across dozens of boxes, and no resource hogging GUI, they run great. - greatblackowl, on 02/29/2008, -0/+5http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Saxoph ...
Nothing goes better with saxophones than Fedora. - inactive, on 02/29/2008, -0/+4Ron Paul uses Ubuntu Linux on his unlocked iPhone to help Kevin Rose crack the HD-DVD key
- inactive, on 02/29/2008, -0/+4The one that makes the beeps and boops, sounds like a 56k modem when loading things, often does very difficult tasks such as searching a database for certain facial feature in milliseconds but manages to do other, more simple tasks slowly, and is often wasting its cpu on really cool, but useless graphical things while doing a complexed task?
- inactive, on 02/28/2008, -1/+5Yup,I like Fedora.
- matx, on 02/28/2008, -1/+5Yep, windows works just fine in less critical areas such as just viewing a video as it seemed from what they were using it for. There's some windows box's where I am for less critical things but as long as they aren't connected to the internet they usually work fine.
- Remmy, on 02/29/2008, -0/+4You're right nobody cares. Which is why YOU use your balls a lot. :(
- xroman, on 02/28/2008, -0/+4yes, indeed.... WTF!?
- Railz, on 02/29/2008, -0/+4I want the Hollywood OS. Seems pretty straight forward.
- Cryoniq, on 02/29/2008, -0/+3Becuase windows aren't even reliable to be used to crash other stuff even.
- inactive, on 02/29/2008, -0/+3geeks with *****'n rockets dood!
- johanm, on 02/28/2008, -1/+4Nerd Humor: "I claimed it in the name of Fedora and was quickly then asked politely asked to leave the building. Just Kidding!"
makes me want to yank this guys underwear up and put them over his head - TeacherOfHeroes, on 02/29/2008, -0/+3I'd rather have neither running my shuttle. They're very stable and all, and any linux OS will serve them quite well for desktops and servers and whatnot. But even they don't hold a candle to the kind of software that is produced for these situations.
The software that is used to run things like a space shuttle is meticulously designed and written so that there are no bugs. Code is examined and proven accurate, and left untouched for decades. - UnWeave, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3Is that sarcasm or is the guy just full on weird? Either way I am digging him up.
- ImTheManWhoRU, on 02/28/2008, -3/+6someone should make NASALinux
- andycr512, on 02/29/2008, -0/+3Adds more meaning to "Blue Screen of Death". :)
- Cryoniq, on 02/29/2008, -0/+3No they weren't..
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