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  • Re: Linux On The Moon ?

    From address@address@is.invalid (LucLan) to comp.os.linux.misc on Sun Apr 5 09:49:19 2026
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    c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
    What OS do they use on the new moon rocket/capsule ?

    RHEL variant ?

    Anyway, the thing DID launch this evening. So far
    it looks good. They're gonna do the Apollo-8 thing
    this time.

    The hyper-redundant/re-routable programming/hardware
    they use on spacecraft seems sort of black magic.

    They are using MS, they had problems with Outlook.
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    Luc
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  • From Nuno Silva@nunojsilva@invalid.invalid to comp.os.linux.misc on Sun Apr 5 11:29:26 2026
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    On 2026-04-05, LucLan wrote:

    c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
    What OS do they use on the new moon rocket/capsule ?

    RHEL variant ?

    Anyway, the thing DID launch this evening. So far
    it looks good. They're gonna do the Apollo-8 thing
    this time.

    The hyper-redundant/re-routable programming/hardware
    they use on spacecraft seems sort of black magic.

    They are using MS, they had problems with Outlook.

    I do hope that has nothing to do with actual mission software. It
    sounded like someone did take a personal computing device to check MS
    cloud email accounts, but I didn't read much on it yet.

    Actual mission software would at the very least be running on
    space-grade hardware, and wouldn't be the sort of thing that'd require
    cloud services whose reachability can't be taken for granted.

    Or so one would hope?
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    Nuno Silva
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  • From John McCue@jmclnx@gmail.com.invalid to comp.os.linux.misc on Sun Apr 5 13:54:39 2026
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    Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote:
    On 2026-04-05, LucLan wrote:

    c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
    What OS do they use on the new moon rocket/capsule ?
    <snip>

    They are using MS, they had problems with Outlook.

    I do hope that has nothing to do with actual mission software. It
    sounded like someone did take a personal computing device to check MS
    cloud email accounts, but I didn't read much on it yet.

    From what I have read, the M/S computer is part of
    the mission. It has 2 Outlook instances active and
    both are failing. I would really hope the critical
    systems are some form of Linux or *BSD or even QNX.

    <snip>
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