NASA Uses Linux

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.

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Google Earth vs NASA World Wind

Surely this is not a new topic. I’ve been asked this many times: which is better, Google Earth or NASA World Wind? (A more accurate question is, which do you prefer, Google Earth or NASA World Wind?)

This post doesn’t talk about my opinion at all. It does, however, show you some cool things about each of them. The “more” link is below the video(s).

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