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Re: PEAL (Linux in Orbit?)
The Debian web site says that NASA installed Debian on their space
shuttles, check the following URLs:
http://www.debian.org/news.html#19970401
http://www.debian.org/news.html#19970626a
http://www.debian.org/news.html#19970708b
Satellite development:
http://www.debian.org/news.html#19980203a
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Ira Abramov wrote:
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> From: ncm@nospam.cantrip.org (Nathan Myers)
> Subject: WANTED: Project PEAL: Project to Equip Astronauts with Linux
> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:11:54 GMT
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> Recent articles on the International Space Station (ISS) have
> mentioned that astronauts will be issued laptop computers running
> MSWin95. Other reports have predicted disastrous trouble with
> the station control software, because of poor engineering practices
> and unrealistic schedules.
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> This situation creates a real opportunity for Linux. While we
> (probably) can't help with the main station software, at least
> the astronauts can be freed from Win95 crashes. Imagine the sound
> bites: "At least our laptops don't crash all the time."
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> PEAL is a project to port the applications that the astronauts use
> to run under Linux, so each astronaut has a choice of operating
> systems. Many of them will continue using MSWin95, for a time, but
> if any astronaut chooses Linux, the others will begin to pick it up,
> just as happens on the ground.
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> For now, I'm just getting set up. Anyone who wants to take over the
> web page, design a project logo, set up a mail reflector, create a
> newsgroup, become group leader, or (almost forgot :-) port software,
> please write. We need to know what codes the astronauts need ported,
> and where the sources are. The project web page, for now, is:
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> http://www.cantrip.org/peal.html
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> Watch this space for future announcements about a mail reflector and
> calls for porting help. We can get Linux into continuous use in orbit!
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> - --
> Nathan Myers
> ncm@nospam.cantrip.org http://www.cantrip.org/
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