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Chinese Marsian rover runs on Kylin OS, which is Linux based 1.https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3138313/mars-moon-computer-system-behind-chinas-
by krasin 5y ago
Chinese Marsian rover runs on Kylin OS, which is Linux based
1.https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3138313/mars-moon-computer-system-behind-chinas-space-missions https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3138313/mars...
2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylin_(operating_system) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylin_(operating_system)
- aliasEli 5y agoI did not know that. It appears that conquering the solar system is easier than conquering the PC desktop.
- Gys 5y agoSo Linux might be only OS with an installed base covering several planets?
- thomascountz 5y agoSounds right; you can’t open Windows in space.
- Shorn 5y agoIn space, no one can hear you phone home.
- Elv13 5y agovxworks claimed that title. Unfortunately, Linux never was the "only OS with an installed base covering several planets". And if you never heard of vxworks or QNX, that's the point. They just work and that's the point.
- akiselev 5y agoIt's the only general purpose OS that's both on several planets and usable on commodity computing hardware, as opposed to a real time OS or the custom operating systems that predated them. They have a much longer history in space: VxWorks has been on every Mars surface mission since the Pathfinder Lander in 1997 including Perseverance, New Horizons flew by Pluto in 2015 running Nucleus OS and RTEMS is on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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