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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 28th Feb 2008 20:00 UTC, submitted by Rahul

"There has been a long standing rumor regarding NASA running Fedora which all of us in the Fedora community have been always intrigued by. Is it true? What are they doing with it there? Why don't they run RHEL. Fortunately enough, a couple of weeks ago, I got to experience NASA behind the scenes, first hand, and hang out with the coolest members of the Fedora community, and find out the answer to these questions and lots more."

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RE[2]: Solaris OS somewhere?

by 2501 on Fri 29th Feb 2008 01:56 UTC in reply to "RE: Solaris OS somewhere?"

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2005-07-14

Unstable??????????? Ubuntu? Slackware????????????????????
Can you be more specific?

Thanks.

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RE[3]: Solaris OS somewhere?

by ashcrow on Fri 29th Feb 2008 02:07 in reply to "RE[2]: Solaris OS somewhere?"

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2008-02-02

Unstable??????????? Ubuntu? Slackware????????????????????
Can you be more specific?

Thanks.

-2501

They are stable and fine ... but you have to remember that it comes down to the user base in a lot of cases. The more people who like X means the easier it is to get approval/consensus to use X. While the BSD's are great OS's, there are probably far fewer people pushing for them as there (at least seem to be) fewer users of the OS's. The same thing goes with Slackware. It's a nice and simple distribution but in terms of users it seems to not be very high on the list.

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RE[3]: Solaris OS somewhere?

by Sabz on Fri 29th Feb 2008 02:29 in reply to "RE[2]: Solaris OS somewhere?"

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2005-07-07

Unstable??????????? Ubuntu? Slackware????????????????????
Can you be more specific?

Thanks.

-2501

lots are coming from Ubuntu over to Fedora, but i dunno about Slack as i aint used it, but it doesnt have a high usage an lacks good support

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RE[4]: Solaris OS somewhere?

by 2501 on Fri 29th Feb 2008 02:37 in reply to "RE[3]: Solaris OS somewhere?"

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2005-07-14

than you both for your answers.

I understand your point. Fedora seems to be very solid too if NASA is trusting it to manage very important information. I wonder if other goverment agencies is using it since it has a lot of support from system administrators and programmers.

Slackware is my favorite distro but I think that there are not a lot of Slackware fans at NASA.

Anyway, it is good for the Linux/BSD community that they are not relaying on Windows to do the most important jobs. :-)

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