NASA Uses Linux

Posted on 2008.05.01
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A long time ago (sometime around the current month last year), I was talking to some people about how the International Space Station was running on Windows 95 and old versions of Windows NT. Apparently they were later moving to Linux.

Interestingly, NASA also uses Linux - that is, two flavours of Linux: RedHat Enterprise Linux and Fedora.

RedHat Enterprise Linux

More after the jump.

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Ubuntu 8.04

Posted on 2008.04.26
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A few days ago, Canonical released a new version of their leading Linux products: 8.04. Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Long Term Service) has been released, improving the desktop experience and targeting Mac and Windows users by adding enhanced multimedia solutions for pictures, music, videos, and more.

You can find out more about Ubuntu 8.04 from their official page.

I do want to point out a related project, called Kubuntu (essentially Ubuntu but with a KDE desktop). Kubuntu 8.04 was also released recently with updated components, such as KDE 4 with support for 3D effects, new simplified codec installation for Kaffeine, and Read/Write support for NTFS!

KDE4 preview

Personally, though, my preferred Linux distribution is still OpenSuSE. Maybe that will change, but likely not if I can get KDE4 on SuSE.

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