Why should we teach students Linux??

[Bob Hemus]

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 21:48 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.

I'm pretty sure I heard one of the engineers say they were using Debian
when they were talking to them about the "software problem">
Bob