[GTALUG] SpaceX Sent NASA Astronauts Into Orbit Using Linux

[James Knott]

On 2020-06-08 05:44 AM, Robert Brockway via talk wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Jun 2020, Slackrat via talk wrote:
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>> James Knott via talk <talk at gtalug.org> writes:
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>>> https://futurism.com/the-byte/spacex-nasa-astronauts-linux
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>> Well Bully for Elon Musk. That's a truly momentous achievement.
>
> Linux has been going in to space for a while now.  This article is 
> from 2013 but it notes that RHEL/CentOS had already been used on the 
> ISS before that. 

It's also used in all those Starlink satellites:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/spacex-weve-launched-32000-linux-computers-into-space-for-starlink-internet/