long term support release

[Les Mikesell]

Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

>>> I wouldn't choose Linux to control a spacecraft or a nuclear power
>>> plant, but I didn't hesitate to chose Linux to control robots in a lab,
>>> nor do I hesitate to chose Fedora to host "my personal mission's"
>>> mission-critical data" ;)
>> That's just you.  Some people[1] think it's okay to let Linux control a
>> spacecraft[2].
>>
>> [1] http://www.nasa.gov
>> [2] http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5714800202.html
>>
> 
> More than just NASA... a good many satellites from many countries (JP
> and I think 1 or 2 Euro countries) and some of the planned rovers use
> linux. Though none of them have been COTS as these articles say.
> 

There are plenty of heavy duty jobs on Linux these days - Avaya phone 
switches, F5's BigIP load balancers, etc. would be mission critical in a 
lot of places.  But I don't think they use the fedora updates... And I 
doubt if they want linux to be "interesting".

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   Les Mikesell
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