U.S. Navy turns to Linux to run its drone fleet

[pauly]

This is interesting.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57...s-drone-fleet/

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/ope...ggest-win/3690

[NickStone]

Can you imagine if it ran on Windows, the drones will be crashing all the time.

[GreyGeek]

Can you imagine if it ran on Windows, the drones will be crashing all the time.

Dozens have.
http://wramsite.com/forum/topics/win...-alleged-drone

[pauly]

Can you imagine if it ran on Windows, the drones will be crashing all the time.

It does and did and now the Iranians have a beautiful new stealth drone to do backward compatibility on.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middl...engineer-Video

[pauly]

Dozens have.
http://wramsite.com/forum/topics/win...-alleged-drone

Wow that is really interesting. Thanks

[whatthefunk]

I dont know why the US military didnt move everything to Linux years ago. Security issues aside, because its open source, you can do what ever you want with it. If the US military hired a team of programmers they could have custom OSs for everything.

[woodsmoke]

Here is a rather sideways article from an IBM guy that is promoting open source and mentions a big confab wherein police etc. are asking for open source software, not too long a read.

http://www.thestreet.com/story/11660...-software.html

woodsmoke

[woodsmoke]

re the linky to the drones being spoofed etc.

Back in Viet-Nam the radio operators were continually warned to not throw down a walkie talkie that had the batteries run out on it. The thinking being that those stupid people from the jungle can't get batteries anyway...only those stupid people used grapefruits to power the radios and listened in on what we were saying....

and they were listening to WHAT was being said because our people wouldn't go to the trouble to use simple codes.

The Navy ships had what was called a "wheel code". It was basically a simplified circular slide rule that was adjusted using an alphanumeric code sent out from Naval Command and when it was worked out then one went to a simple page in a book and used that code set.

But, no....people wouldn't even go to the trouble to do that....and people died because of it.

Looks like things haven't changed much, people are still people and think that other people are stupid.

woodsmoke

[oshunluvr]

Too bad Raytheon likely won't contribute anything back to the linux community.

[whatthefunk]

Too bad Raytheon likely won't contribute anything back to the linux community.

Like drivers for this frickin intercontinental ballistic missile that I cant get to work.

[ronw]

Like drivers for this frickin intercontinental ballistic missile that I cant get to work.

I think there's a PPA for that. But we need to see the output of "lsmod | grep mutuallyassureddestruction" to help.

[oshunluvr]

You know, I was speaking in the general sort of "Big companies using linux to make millions but not giving anything back to the linux commmunity" way but I never thought about turning my RC Helicopter into a Spy Drone! Great idea!

[SteveRiley]

I think there's a PPA for that. But we need to see the output of "lsmod | grep mutuallyassureddestruction" to help.

First, you must RTFM.

man how-to-build-a-bomb

[Tinker Tantrum]

It's good to see the American military finally coming to it's senses regarding national security. The world must embrace open source.