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[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

It seems like they'd already be running Linux. I thought the joke of the post is that no aircraft engineers would ever trust those systems with a Microsoft trash OS

[-] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 points 19 minutes ago

would ever trust those systems with a Microsoft trash OS

Well NASA apparently does... for some weird reason.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 15 minutes ago* (last edited 14 minutes ago)

Yeah. 😭

Although I'm doubtful that their flight /navigation computers rely on windows. The issue they had was getting email so it may just be laptops for email and browsing that run that shit

[-] Auth@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

They are probably running a custom embedded operating system for small size and real time scheduling. While linux is capable of that now its support and implementation is still iffy.

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