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Linux is on Mars

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The Perseverence rover has a Linux box running ffmpeg to process video. They just announced that in the NASA presentation. They gave a nice shout-out to the open source community. Go Linux!
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milo wrote: Mon Feb 22, 2021 8:09 pm The Perseverence rover has a Linux box running ffmpeg to process video. They just announced that in the NASA presentation. They gave a nice shout-out to the open source community. Go Linux!
Yeah but which distro? :p
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d.healey wrote: Mon Feb 22, 2021 11:46 pm Yeah but which distro? :p
All of them! :lol:
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:lol:

Here's the video link to the press conference: https://youtu.be/gYQwuYZbA6o

The comment is at about 1:07:00
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I would prefer if it became popular on Earth :D
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This news also made me sad.

I have not even been to the moon, but my os has been to mars :roll:

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"Tim Canham, the Mars Helicopter Operations Lead, shares Linux’s origins at JPL and how it ended up running on multiple boxes on Mars."

https://linuxunplugged.com/396?t=2144

can't recall all rocket science details...but there was something about the preempt patch for the kernel and IIRC they don't use a real time kernel because Mars and moonbeams and stuff
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https://twitter.com/mikko/status/1362763793042972673

'Breaking: Mars becomes the second planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows.'

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