Hi /g/. I'm curious, what are the kind of systems embarked on a space rocket? What kind of OS do they work on, how "data-heavy" are they?
Yeah, as you can tell I'm not from these parts and I don't know shit about technology.
Laptops on the ISS run Debian linux.
>>59232506
Debian
>>59232506
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-releases-software-catalog-granting-the-public-free-access-to-technologies-for
>>59232571
Debian GNU/Linux*
>>59232594
uhhh excuse yourself
"Debian GNU/Linux
Debian's Social Contract states the goal of making Debian entirely free software, and Debian conscientiously keeps nonfree software out of the official Debian system. However, Debian also provides a repository of nonfree software. According to the project, this software is “not part of the Debian system,” but the repository is hosted on many of the project's main servers, and people can readily find these nonfree packages by browsing Debian's online package database and its wiki.
There is also a “contrib” repository; its packages are free, but some of them exist to load separately distributed proprietary programs. This too is not thoroughly separated from the main Debian distribution.
Previous releases of Debian included nonfree blobs with Linux, the kernel. With the release of Debian 6.0 (“squeeze”) in February 2011, these blobs have been moved out of the main distribution to separate packages in the nonfree repository. However, the problem partly remains: the installer in some cases recommends these nonfree firmware files for the peripherals on the machine."
Well, thanks guys. Really didn't knew their shared these freely.