I was reading this arctile "NASA 'Extreme programming' controls Mars Lander robot" and it says that they use Linux and C on their latests robot on Mars. I think that is something Linux people should job on. I mean having your OS running on a different planet. Yet if I Google "NASA Linux robots" I don't get to much for stories about it if. If you find something good let me know.
Again I will go off on Linux and say how cool is it and it can run on a run a super computer and a robot on Mars. And by Linux I guess I should say GNU/Linux :). The open sourceness of it is what makes this possible (It is a good product to). Being open source makes it easy for anyone to get the code and compile for their needs.
Go Linux!
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O yea. I forgot to thanks the guys who wrote that bad printer driver and made all it possible. As Shayne told me.
I gotta say Paul, I've never been much for linux. I even tried it out here not too long ago. I'm just to used to the ease of installing things on windows. This is from the developer standpoint of course, as normal programs were easy to put on there, but when you try to get the latest and greatest java (with shayne's help) it doesn't turn out so quick and easy. Enough ranting though. That's some pretty cool shinanigans going on there and I'm happy for you linux guys.
I'll go on record as saying that getting Java onto Ubuntu is easy when you know what you're doing... I didn't. Sorry Adam. :(
As for how the GNU project is also known as "A printer driver gone bad" (I forgot where I originally heard the quote. Sorry, clever-quote man!) You needn't go further than the title of the book on the GNU revolution itself, Free as in Freedom. I haven't gotten all the way through the book myself, but there you have it.
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