Why should we teach students Linux??

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Bob Hemus wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 21:17 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
>> On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Bob Hemus wrote:
>>> I know a bunch of you fellas have little or no use for Govment types,
>>> but it was Debian that they chose for the Moon Rovers.  Tying up a gob
>>> of $$$ on winders just wasn't a choice, I suppose.
>>
>> Which moon rovers are you referring to?
>>
> The last two, the pair.  Initially they had some kinda problem, but were
> able to sort it out.  I believe they are still operating?  You think
> they culda sorted out a M$ problem 240,000 miles away?

I'm pretty sure that they're not running Linux or any OTS OS.  I think 
I remember reading that they were running some embedded custom OS.  NASA 
does, however, use Linux alot on workstations & servers, and its usually 
Fedora Core, not Debian.


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