01 February 2012

US killer spy drone controls switch to Linux

According to this.

Now, instead of the usual Blue Screen of Death the operators could expect hearing something like "Gee, boss, I am not in the mood for flying anymore today... let's knock it off for now, what say?"

6 comments:

Yitzchak said...

I wonder what distribution they used.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Distribution? Yitzchak, I am starting to suspect you might be in the software business too...

Francis Sedgemore said...

Quite the opposite. The machines will function forever without need of a reboot, with operating system kernels spewing out inconsequential driver bug messages to system logs by the megabyte-load. And the operators will spend all their waking hours glued to the computers, constantly updating libraries and recompiling test kernels. Just for the hell of it.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Hm... yeah, I guess it's a closer prediction.

Dick Stanley said...

They're going to turn the operators into programmers yet. Piloting is no longer enough.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Not a good idea that. That will bring a few days of manic activity followed by two weeks depression in cycles.