What if the Mars Lander ran Windows Vista?

[Vadi]

Read & digg: http://digg.com/linux_unix/What_if_t..._Windows_Vista

I hope this spawns a whole lot of amusing comics

[NxZDr]

As Kurz said "The Horror, The Horror"

I'm assuming he was referring to the popups "You are dying in the jungle, Cancel or Allow?"

I tried, but I'm no artist.

[zmjjmz]

Following the Mars Phoenix on twitter, it has 128MB RAM.
Couldn't run Vista, barely XP.

[NxZDr]

"Xbuntu: The first OS Aliens will encounter."

I don't see it happening, I suppose they have their own OS.

[Vadi]

Most likely, they'd need it to be as efficient as possible with their specific parameters. Still, one will claim Linux as that

[linux6994]

The bootup would start at launch time and finish just about in time to crash on the surface.

[cdtech]

"Xbuntu: The first OS Aliens will encounter."

I don't see it happening, I suppose they have their own OS.

Using an RAD6000 space computer, OS is Vx-Works written in C, not open source.

[zmjjmz]

I bet it runs some form of embedded OS.

[LaRoza]

It runs Linux? That is cool.

[zmjjmz]

Nah, it runs Vx Works.