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Post by jal on Nov 3, 2013 23:11:51 GMT
Evening All Thought this might be of Interest to a few on here The Newest American Warship USS Zumwalt
Click on the arrows to move the pictures on and read about all it's gadgets and fittings etc innovation.uk.msn.com/design/from-concept-to-creation-the-ultimate-warshipFinally, computer geeks might be interested to know that the USS Zumwalt is running Linux on its internal networks: this enables the ship's crew to install off-the-shelf software for a variety of different purposes. Ars Technica's Sean Gallagher has called the Linux-powered bridge a 'floating data center' and likened it to the famous bridge on the Starship Enterprise. There are more than six million lines of code running the Zumwalt's on-board software, and futuristic touchscreens are fitted throughout the bridge. In many ways it's fitting that the first commanding officer will be one Captain James Kirk. |
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Post by Ratae on Nov 4, 2013 9:37:01 GMT
Evening All Thought this might be of Interest to a few on here The Newest American Warship USS Zumwalt
Click on the arrows to move the pictures on and read about all it's gadgets and fittings etc innovation.uk.msn.com/design/from-concept-to-creation-the-ultimate-warshipFinally, computer geeks might be interested to know that the USS Zumwalt is running Linux on its internal networks: this enables the ship's crew to install off-the-shelf software for a variety of different purposes. Ars Technica's Sean Gallagher has called the Linux-powered bridge a 'floating data center' and likened it to the famous bridge on the Starship Enterprise. There are more than six million lines of code running the Zumwalt's on-board software, and futuristic touchscreens are fitted throughout the bridge. In many ways it's fitting that the first commanding officer will be one Captain James Kirk. My guess would be that they are running Linux 'cos they have made their own Linux distro for the purpose. It won't be Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint or any of the other popular distros, although it seems that those "off-the shelf" programs may be from the standard Linux repositories. Harder to hack than Windows anyway. |
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