What if the Mars Lander ran Windows Vista?

[Vadi]

Read & digg: http://digg.com/linux_unix/What_if_the_Mars_Lander_ran_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.

[dracule]

why would it run vista? that is one of the most stupid comments ever. vista is a graphical OS, a desktop OS.

[init1]

why would it run vista? that is one of the most stupid comments ever. vista is a graphical OS, a desktop OS.
Yeah seems wasteful to put a GUI on a mars lander.

[cdtech]

Yeah seems wasteful to put a GUI on a mars lander.

Unless?

[Le-Froid]

Meh, the lander runs VxWorks (Based from UNIX, not Linux :()

[grossaffe]

well that's about as subtle as they come.

[kikoman]

Its the Mars Rover's photo transfer infrastructure that is using linux.

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2124548/linux-brings-mars-rover-images-earth

Though we should wait, linux will be the norms, especially in robotics.