"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Linux On Mars
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> | When NASA needs an operating system for a Mars lander does it go
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> | Bill Gates' door? The answer is no. The newly arrived on the planet
> Phoenix
> | Lander is powered by a variation of Linux running on a specially
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> | and motherboard produced by IBM.
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> http://www.bloggernews.net/116062
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Ahemm...vxWorks is *not* a variant of Linux. The lander is being run by
vxWorks which is a RTOS. Some versions of vxWorks run Linux on a
low-priority thread, but I doubt tht the lander has Linux running on it and
if it did, they'd probably use it for less important tasks.
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