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Some critics (and, oh, there are many) claim Windows 8 is out of this world — or not meant for it. That Microsoft reached for the stars but fell to earth. How right they may be. The operating system won’t achieve escape velocity anytime soon, and an older version is about to burn up on reentry.<\/p>\n
The International Space Station, better known as the ISS, runs on Windows, but that is changing. Launched in 1998, the orbiting home, which circles the earth at an altitude\u00a0of just over 400 kilometers (it varies), is home to a team of astronauts\u00a0who depend on, not only supplies from home, but also a computer system that keeps everything running smoothly. That computer system is moving to Linux.<\/p>\n
This consists of a network of laptops, which provide the ISS crew with all of the vital capabilities needed for day-to-day operations; telling the astronauts where they are, managing inventory of the equipment used and even interfacing with the cameras that capture the photos and videos we all ogle at on the internet.<\/p>\n
Linux Foundation says<\/a> that\u00a0Keith Chuvala of United Space Alliance, who is tasked\u00a0with maintaining all of this computer technology, is responsible for the change. <\/p>\n “We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable \u2013 one that would give us in-house control. So if we needed to patch, adjust or adapt, we could”, Chuvala says.\u00a0That has to sting Microsoft just a bit.<\/p>\n Chuvala\u00a0and his team are utilizing the training offered by the Linux Foundation to get up to speed developing applications in Linux and responded by developing two courses geared specifically towards\u00a0the USA\/NASA team\u2019s needs. The organization claims “both training sessions were adapted to provide tailored instruction for the diverse group”.<\/p>\n The next challenge set —\u00a0Robonaut (R2) is headed for the ISS.\u00a0Running on Linux, the robot can be manipulated by onboard astronauts with ground controllers commanding it into position and performing operations.<\/p>\n Oh, and remember those Voyager space crafts?\u00a0The computer NASA maintains<\/a> to control them has a master clock that runs at 4 MHz but the CPU\u2019s clock runs at only 250 KHz. At least the ISS does not have that to contend with.<\/p>\n Photo Credit:<\/strong> NASA<\/p>\n Some critics (and, oh, there are many) claim Windows 8 is out of this world — or not meant for it. That Microsoft reached for the stars but fell to earth. How right they may be. The operating system won’t achieve escape velocity anytime soon, and an older version is about to burn up on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n<\/img><\/a>
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