FlightLinux Blasts Off Again

"Patrick Stakem wants everyone to know that the newest iteration of FlightLinux is not just for NASA rocket scientists. The special hardened distribution that earlier this century orbited the Earth on an unmanned satellite is set to move into active duty again, this time as a civilian project.

"The original FlightLinux project, which designed an onboard operating system for spacecraft, ended in 2002, but the site remains, with a notation from Stakem..."

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