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Federal Aviation Administration Saves $15 Million by Migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Business Wire 2006 ^ | 04/26/06 | unknown

Posted on 04/27/2006 11:25:00 AM PDT by Salo

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To: Incorrigible
And thats always true? Really? Hell I could put up a mail server which would rival hotmail in terms of functionality in less than a day!

I am not saying there are not cases where a closed source solution will be cheaper but its sure as hell ain't the case they are typically any easier..

41 posted on 04/27/2006 1:15:17 PM PDT by N3WBI3 ("I can kill you with my brain" - River Tam)
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To: zeugma

We use curl with bigbrother to test our sites, its a wonderful tool..


42 posted on 04/27/2006 1:16:58 PM PDT by N3WBI3 ("I can kill you with my brain" - River Tam)
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To: Golden Eagle
I guess you haven't heard about all the problems Airbus has been having with their various uses of Linux?

That was the cockpit system, no indication it was Linux. The investigation report doesn't even include the word "Linux."

The photo you posted is not related to that incident, and is in fact from the entertainment system of another Airbus model. From the photo, it is not a Linux crash, but an application running on Linux that crashed. Linux is waiting for the program or service to be restarted. I've heard the software behind these systems is pretty slow and buggy.

Damn, you never research, do you?

43 posted on 04/27/2006 1:18:06 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: zeugma
reply #26 was done with curl. it's basically a one line shell script.

I never used that, pretty cool. I was originally thinking a script, but I'm not sure how JR handles the authorization in the POST.

44 posted on 04/27/2006 1:20:02 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

Aibus uses Linux for a variety of purposes on their planes and are experiencing a myriad of issues because of it. See other links on that thread, and do your own search for "airbus" and "linux" to see all the problems they're having. To try to deny them is ridiculous...


45 posted on 04/27/2006 1:38:13 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
Aibus uses Linux for a variety of purposes on their planes and are experiencing a myriad of issues because of it.

The most generous definition of myriad is 10,000

So please can you post 12 instances where there has been a Linux issue on Airbus?

46 posted on 04/27/2006 1:43:34 PM PDT by N3WBI3 ("I can kill you with my brain" - River Tam)
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To: N3WBI3

No, I'm not interested in counting them, I told you how to find some if you want, search for "Airbus" and "Linux".


47 posted on 04/27/2006 3:45:55 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle; FLAMING DEATH
So in other words all you have is one google search in which the first several dozen result (alone) will be talking about the same thing.

FD This goes on the lies list

48 posted on 04/27/2006 3:51:16 PM PDT by N3WBI3 ("I can kill you with my brain" - River Tam)
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To: N3WBI3

LOL! Never mind all the Linux Liars on that thread claiming the Airbus failures were somehow the fault of Windows! LMAO!!!


49 posted on 04/27/2006 3:56:01 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
Hey Ill call them wrong, but are you saying its ok for you to lie (you can not point at a dozen separate instances let alone 10,000) because they wrongfully accused windows?
50 posted on 04/27/2006 4:00:53 PM PDT by N3WBI3 ("I can kill you with my brain" - River Tam)
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To: N3WBI3

LOL you're not about to correct ANY linux lies, you push them as much as anyone. You also always claim you don't have anthing against Microsoft but then call their products "crap" on this very thread. Now if your flaming troll from hell doesn't show up you'll probably ball to the moderator about this post. LOL you're hilarious!


51 posted on 04/27/2006 4:20:36 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
You also always claim you don't have anthing against Microsoft but then call their products "crap" on this very thread.

Anyone with a clue could have seen I was tlaking about *not* ripping out the whole environment and replacing it to get a littlt functionality when its already out there and compatable with the current environment.

BTW, Everyone here can see the lie about a myriad of linux problems on airbus when you cant even point out a dozen..

52 posted on 04/27/2006 4:52:47 PM PDT by N3WBI3 ("I can kill you with my brain" - River Tam)
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To: Golden Eagle

Is it your contention I never say anything good about MS products?


53 posted on 04/27/2006 4:53:52 PM PDT by N3WBI3 ("I can kill you with my brain" - River Tam)
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To: Golden Eagle
Aibus uses Linux for a variety of purposes on their planes

Not for flight control systems, which is what you lied about in your post in that article. I like how the photo you showed wasn't even of the same kind of plane as the one the article was about.

and are experiencing a myriad of issues because of it.

While it's never impossible to experience issues with any OS, they're apparently experiencing issues due to poorly written vendor (Panasonic, IIRC) software, not Linux itself. As I said, look at the screen, it's not a kernel panic (= Windows BSOD), but Linux waiting for the software. This is as opposed to the Windows system that screwed up air traffic control due to a bug in Windows itself.

How bad does your OS have to be that SOP is rebooting the machine once a month? Funny thing is that the vendor for that advertised over five nines, which is impossible with 12 Windows reboots in a year (or seven if you let it go to restart automatically).

54 posted on 04/27/2006 5:25:11 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

Could still get 5 9's on a system, just not a server... I.e. Failover clustering..


55 posted on 04/27/2006 5:32:57 PM PDT by N3WBI3 ("I can kill you with my brain" - River Tam)
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To: N3WBI3
BTW, Everyone here can see the lie about a myriad of linux problems on airbus when you cant even point out a dozen..

I have heard from various people about problems with the media software on those systems being slow and unstable, but nothing attributing problems directly to Linux. We know Linux is capable of streaming video to thousands of users all day long without a hitch.

56 posted on 04/27/2006 5:36:18 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: N3WBI3
Could still get 5 9's on a system, just not a server... I.e. Failover clustering..

Nope, this was a server. We know it wasn't clustered with failover because it blowing took down the system, plus the fact that reports point to "the" server.

57 posted on 04/27/2006 5:38:52 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

Then youre right, cant get 5'9s on a windows server and unless its a real concrete Linux config I would hesitate to guarentee it on that system either..


58 posted on 04/27/2006 5:42:08 PM PDT by N3WBI3 ("I can kill you with my brain" - River Tam)
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To: Incorrigible

Mostly AIX.


59 posted on 04/27/2006 5:57:19 PM PDT by bvw
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To: bvw

If true, IBM must be thrilled, their new product line just cost them $15 million! /sarcasm


60 posted on 04/27/2006 6:05:43 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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