SpaceX Sent NASA Astronauts Into Orbit Using Linux
James Knott via talk <talk@gtalug.org> writes:
Well Bully for Elon Musk. That's a truly momentous achievement. But if he can repeat the feat on a reasonably frequent basis, RosCosmos will really be crying because they made untold billions the last 9 years or so ferrying US flyers back and forth, despite the hullabaloo in the Press about the latest NASA/Roscosmos agreement written to give the impression that such hitch-hiking was a recent phenomenon. -- William Henderson aka Slackrat http://billh.sdf.org/slackware.jpg 9HS5203 ON HamSphere Ham Radio
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
On 2020-06-08 05:44 AM, Robert Brockway via talk wrote:
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.
The science world is also a big Linux user, especially on supercomputers. One of my cousins is a nuclear physicist (he works with neutrinos) and I gave him a bit of a hand with Linux.
On 2020-06-08 05:44 AM, Robert Brockway via talk wrote:
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.
It's also used in all those Starlink satellites: https://www.zdnet.com/article/spacex-weve-launched-32000-linux-computers-int...
On 2020-06-05 11:34 PM, John Moniz via talk wrote:
Good to know. I've been wondering what the OS is in Crew Dragon and suspected it was Linux. Elon Musk's Tesla cars also use Linux.
When I was watching the coverage on TV, those 3 monitors in front of the crew seemed to have a Linux look.
On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 at 09:56, John Moniz via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
It did NOT llook ike Windows, therefore made me think it was Linux
So both you and James aren't saying it had a Linux look. You're saying it didn't have a Windows or Mac look. There really isn't a "Linux" look, since there isn't a single standard Linux desktop. Plus, window managers/desktops used for Linux tend to be more customisable than Windows or Mac, making Linux have even less of a specific look. It could just as easily have been QNX, BSD, something else or even (though unlikely) entirely custom. I didn't see anything that pointed towards it being Linux. -- Scott
Here's an article that mostly talks about Linux running on the Falcon 9 rocket but mentions near the end: "The Dragon spacecraft also runs Linux with flight software written in C++. The ship's touchscreen interface is rendered using Chromium and JavaScript." https://www.zdnet.com/article/from-earth-to-orbit-with-linux-and-spacex/ -- Scott
On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 at 20:26, Scott Allen <mlxxxp@gmail.com> wrote:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/from-earth-to-orbit-with-linux-and-spacex/
Sorry for being redundant. I didn't realise that the original article posted by James links to the above ZDNet article, -- Scott
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