Re: [libreoffice-marketing] NASA is switching from Windows to Linux - maybe they will go to LO

Hi :)
They have been using Gnu&Linux for all their command&control and anything else they need to rely 
on.  You can hear chatter involving unix-based commands reasonably regularly.  

It's only the astronauts personal laptops and some of the ones for the experiments on the space 
station that have been on Windows.  Those have required the most work in up-keep and maintenance 
despite being the least important and doing the least work.   

Mars Rovers, re-supply vessels, manned(or women'd)-rockets, satellites and all the rest have always 
worked on unix-based platforms such as Gnu&Linux.  
Regards from 
Tom :)  






----- Original Message -----
> From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster <webmaster@krackedpress.com>
> To: LibreO - Marketing Global <marketing@global.libreoffice.org>
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> Sent: Tuesday, 7 May 2013, 15:47
> Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] NASA is switching from Windows to Linux - maybe they will go to 
> LO
>
>
> I saw this article but one thing they did not tell you - are they going 
> to use LO instead of MSO now they will have Linux laptops?
>
> Since "NASA is relying on The Linux Foundation for training", I hope 
> they will introduce LO to NASA as the office suite to be used on their 
> Linux systems.
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/to-the-space-station-and-beyond-with-linux-7000014958/
>
> "To the space station and beyond with Linux"
>
> Summary: The International Space Station's laptops are moving from 
> Windows to Linux, and R2, the first Linux-powered humanoid robot in 
> space, is now under-going in-flight testing.
>
> Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
>
> By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for Linux and Open Source | May 6, 2013 -- 
> 21:25 GMT (14:25 PDT)
>
> Unlike my recent spoof story about a Linux-powered Iron Man suit that 
> you could build at home, this story isn't science fiction. NASA really 
> has decided to drop Windows from the laptops on the International Space 
> Station (ISS) in favor of Linux, and the first humanoid robot in space, 
> R2, really is powered by Linux.
> robonautThis isn't science-fiction. This is R2, the first humanoid robot 
> in space, and it's powered by Linux. (Image: NASA)
>
> Keith Chuala, a United Space Alliance contractor, manager of the Space 
> Operations Computing (SpOC) for NASA, and leader of the ISS's Laptops 
> and Network Integration Teams, recently explained that NASA had decided 
> to move to Linux for the ISS's PCs. "We migrated key functions from 
> Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable 
> and reliable --- one that would give us in-house control. So if we 
> needed to patch, adjust, or adapt, we could."
>
> [there is more to this article online]
>
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