According to what was announced by the website neowin and by ExtremeTech, the computers of the International Space Station will migrate from Windows XP to Linux, precisely with the Debian distribution in its version 6 (also known by its code name "Squeeze"). According to statements by the United Space Alliance, have declared the following:
"We have migrated key features from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable."
Beyond reliability and stability, Keith Chuvala said they were looking for an operating system that “could give them complete control. So we needed to patch it, adjust it or adapt it.
Furthermore, there was a previous incident about a Russian cosmonaut who brought a Laptop with the W32.Gammima.AG worm, which spread to all Laptops throughout the station.
Beyond the mere installation, the entire crew will be trained by the Linux Foundation in order to have a Linux management. Without a doubt, this is a great step that the International Space Station has taken to do its chores without having to depend on an operating system of such flimsy instability.
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It is rare to find a pc / lap with windows that does not have a bug.
if possible to find ...
… The new ones that have not yet been used
MMM I doubt it. You have to see if the PCs used by Microsoft do not have a worm or Trojan that sneaks into the installation CDs. Unless they use Linux machines to safely create their installation CDs. 😀
Or that they do not come with OS, and then install your favorite Linux or BSD distro (except Mac, because if you install it, it would be a Hackintoch).
Good thing that would be, but most new Windows machines by default already intentionally carry promotional software and crapware with spyware in droves.
I have Debian Jessie and he's 10
I want to be trained by the Linux Foundation. 🙂
Bufff !, they will make you sweat doing push-ups on a PC that is compiling the kernel.
XDDDDDDDD
hehehehe, Although I have my doubts that they know what the push-ups are. 🙂
enter the edx page and there is the linux course sponsored by linux foundation.
Debian 6? why not use debian 7 which is stable already?
Is Debian 6 still supported of some kind?
It has support until 2015.
if they used windows xp ..., what will they care, whether it is the latest or an old version of debian xd
It is because they will use the Debian Handbook and for now it is only based on Squeeze ja 😉
yes, now it's the oldstable branch. The problem is that according to debian rules it will be without support next year (5/5/2014, a year after wheezy). Anyway, I suppose that NASA will have enough budget to pay the salary of an engineer who sets up a repository and continues to correct packages from that date 😛
I will now be installing the Wheezy to avoid the extended support deadline.
I suppose it's for stability, since Debian 6 has been out for two years and at this time it should be more stable than 7.
Let's see if they also come out so you can't play on Linux ...
With Debian Squeeze, you can't, since the drivers it contains are "too" outdated to be able to play Half-Life 1 or 2 on Steam (with Wheezy it can be solved if you have the updated Mesa 3D driver on hand and if you have an NVIDIA or ATI / AMD brand video card, the drivers well configured).
Even so, if we look at users who use Linux, most of them have PC's that even make Windows XP run as if it were as heavy as Windows Vista, but having GNU / Linux distros like Slackware, Debian and / or CentOS , the applications run as if they were on a Core2Duo.
very good for them! I already use my debian wheezy and it is excellent!
Do you use KDE? Does it feel fluid?
Good for you. Now I will finish downloading the torrent from DVD1 to install it on my PC with XFCE.
Good for them who went to the side of linux
I am left wondering what they would do in the event of a Panic Kernel!
Debian Stable (or Oldstable) is so stable that in its stabilized stability there are no such words.
Good for you. Now I will finish downloading the torrent from DVD1 to install it on my PC with XFCE.
Now that I see the post from my Sony Ericsson W200 cell phone, I just realized that there are errors. Apologies for the blunder, but I correct the article right away.
PS: Thanks for the comments.
Good thing they went to the linux side.
http://notiubuntu.blogspot.com/2013/05/debian-muy-pronto-en-la-estacion.html
Idem.
"... instability so flimsy ..." robust stability? Double negatives affirm or for science less for less = more
Well, and another clear example of how entities with respect worldwide set an example and motivate with this to continue making use of SF.
Off Topic:
Ubuntu 13.04… Ufff! .. Too stable! .. Unity super fluid and the system responds to me super fast and not as before with too much heaviness!
Regards!
my experience is the opposite…., for color tastes
Ummmm, I personally had bad experiences in past versions with that distribution but daaa, 13.04 .. Too stable! .. and Beware, I'm not a fan of Ubuntu for those who are going to comment with those bullshit! .. xD !. I have tried many distros and so far I have three pillars to choose from, Debian, Sabayon and currently Ubuntu!
Also, with the Gnome-classic-fallback it doesn't look so bad xD! ..
Regards!
Also, with the Gnome-classic-fallback it doesn't look so bad xD! ..
"It doesn't look so bad" is the key phrase here.
GNOME 3 Classic (fallback) consumes more resources compared to GNOME 2. Since I have a crappy PC, I will use XFCE because GNOME is not like before.
The same thing happened to me with Ubuntu 11.04 as well, but I hope they at least made the unpacking process much faster than Mandriva's (that's the slowest unpacking distro I've used so far).
Congratulations. But I prefer the old acquaintances (Debian), than the new ones (Ubuntu).
I have always preferred linuxmin over ubuntu and Debian as my Main Distro.
The truth is I am still in testing by the way 8 hours after leaving debian wheezy the testing branch updated me 75 mb.
Good thing that they switched to linux now I can go out without a satellite falling on my head XD.
Hahaha! .. xD! .. LOL
At least thanks to those who put together the Large Hadron Collider who used Debian, because if they used Windows, we would have a world similar to Half-Life (Xen aliens in every corner, and headcrabs that have to be killed with a clean machete).
It seems to me that the Large Hadron Collider uses Scientific Linux based on RHEL / CentOS :). Still, there are rumors about the new RHEL 7 for a month with which CentOS 7 is close: D.
Thanks for the clarification. Anyway, I will test CentOS from what I have seen in your installation / configuration manual it resembles Debian in terms of ease of use and stability (although yum may be my only obstacle to be able to handle it fully, I will try anyway ).
Now it is so stable that it got boring.
But when you find out what you can do with the terminal, the boring ends.
Very good choice, a very solid, flexible and quite stable XD distribution.
Undoubtedly the best choice ... anyone can safely say that if you need an OS for something as important as the space station, if or if you have to get to Debian.
I don't understand how an international station could have used Windows !!! What kind of joke is that ??? How long have they dealt with Windows? XD. Luckily, it is never too late to rectify mistakes. Big Linux !! Although Macintosh is also good. XD