8 Jun
2020
8 Jun
'20
2:44 a.m.
On Fri, 5 Jun 2020, Slackrat via talk wrote:
James Knott via talk <talk@gtalug.org> writes:
Well Bully for Elon Musk. That's a truly momentous achievement.
Linux has been going in to space for a while now. This article is from 2013 but it notes that RHEL/CentOS had already been used on the ISS before that. https://www.silicon.co.uk/workspace/international-space-station-linux-abando... And this LJ article notes that the European Space Agency was already planning to use Linux in 1999. https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3024 My memory told me this was so but it took a little digging to find a reference. The first ATV launched in 2008 but I suspect Linux got in to space earlier than that in experiments. Rob