• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    It seems like they’d already be running Linux. I thought the joke of the post is that no aircraft engineers would ever trust those systems with a Microsoft trash OS

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      19 hours ago

      would ever trust those systems with a Microsoft trash OS

      Well NASA apparently does… for some weird reason.

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        19 hours ago

        Yeah. 😭

        Although I’m doubtful that their flight /navigation computers rely on windows. The issue they had was getting email so it may just be laptops for email and browsing that run that shit

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      1 day ago

      They are probably running a custom embedded operating system for small size and real time scheduling. While linux is capable of that now its support and implementation is still iffy.