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Story: Linux to power US Navy aircraft

Posted by: Anonymous (Wednesday 2 August 2006, 5:59 AM)

In the 1980s, many US Navy shipborn applications were hosted on UNIX systems. On day, the Navy deployed a destroyer running MS-Windows. Something went wrong somewhere and the ship became dead in the water for hours. Fortunately, this was not in a combat situation.

So when I hear that the US Navy is using Linux, my feeling is that the USN is returning to its roots.

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Story: Linux to power US Navy aircraft

Where are all the open source advocates' comments?... Anonymous
In the 1980s, many US Navy shipborn applications w... Anonymous
A very wise decision. Anyway that's my personal op... Anonymous

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