NASA uses Linux with KDE

>NOT USING MACS
9to5mac and macworld lied to me. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I don't think those particular systems were meant to be manned 8+ hours a day or used for any serious development/data entry.

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NASA used pretty much anything, depending on what the job was.
Note the SE on the desk towards the bottom of the picture.

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Nice try friendo, but the two laptops leftmost of that picture are PowerBooks.

There's also a ThinkPad in the same image, what's your point?

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I know that, I just like to piss Apple users off, that's all.

yea those desks look better. Those others are going to give me nightmares

Can't complain, gives me an excuse to dump more random shit.

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so what? they have choices? who gives a shit

user you can't just take a picture of your acne-riddled beer gut and pretend it's from nasa.

although nasa's probably the only thing that can take a picture of something as large as you, you fucking hamplanet.

Yeah, fuck using that kind of setup for any extended period of time. According to the page I stole it from they're the two systems that control the Voyager probes and are still maintained today, they're probably just used for monitoring and sending off quick commands to the probes at most while more complex operations are handled remotely.

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what's the point of the giant displays? how many people actually need to look at them?

Keep em coming, I love workstations.

Linus uses KDE too, doesn't stop it from being shit.

Ironically those giant displays are probably more energy efficient than their CRT monitors.
How old are these pictures? It's weird they even have monitors turned on / hooked up to voyager probes. I guess there's a solid chance they aren't hooked to the internet at all and interface directly with the satellites to send data, this way they can't get fucked up.

Looks good in publicity photos, and they could pipe live video onto them long before computers could be used for that.

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Some of them look like mission clocks and other things that might be generally useful to everyone in certain situations, the camera feeds are probably just more efficient to pipe to a single display that everyone can see, not really sure about the maps. I'd say it's all just information that could be generally useful to anyone at any station in some cases, but I couldn't tell you for sure.
I think most of these are early 2000s to the last five years. I wouldn't be surprised if the mission control systems are hooked up to an isolated network, but Solaris 10 is still supported through 2025 I believe and even if they're running 9 or earlier they're undoubtedly firewalled anyway so it's not like some basement dwelling chucklefuck can just sit there and throw obscure exploits at them all day long.

This one's got to be at least 2005-2006, probably even later.

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maybe if they didn't use a shitty DE with all that bloat they could have made it to Europa.

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Well, look at that.

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Pulled this one from an article written in 2015. Looks like you can be confident that they're performing regular tape backups, and they're using those uncomfortable looking desks in the offices too.

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Okay, what the fuck nasa DON'T use?

Yiff in hell furfags. Stop ruining comfy threads with your furry porn machines, please.

apple

Based & konqipilled

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Looks like they had some pretty kitted out tower-fied systems, too.

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>chill bro I just minimized it for a sec to check myspace

They will literally try anything. For instance I have this guy which was used on the ISS (as in actually flown on it)

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And then there was this custom machine I got ahold of from the shuttle program. Still no idea what was on it though I believe it replicated the CRT displays on the space shuttle for software development.

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NASA has probably used every domestically made computer released at this point and most likely still has all of them because NASA has built something that depends on whatever computer they where using at the time and has to dig them out periodically to talk to some 30 year old satellite that is still chirping

They use it.

Yea, I love the example earlier this year where they scrambled to pull the hardware out of mothballs when IMAGE started bleeping away again after 12 years.

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Looks like a standard SBC on an ISA backplane to me, I've seen those in industrial settings and I still have a backplane with 14 ISA slots from one of them.
What I'd be interested in seeing are the custom wire-wrapped expansion boards.

Here's one

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and the backside

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And the other one

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and its backside

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Imagine having to probe one for a failed solder joint.

Yea I didn't mean much as a securty standpoint.. more-so protecting the fucking things from updates & microsoft, cuz half those old machines run 2000 or xp, not only linux/unix distros.

nothing gets deleted on the internet

Just probe from the front.

Wasn't Amiga the Mac of the mid 80's to mid 90's?

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NASA also insists the world is round so take that for what you will.

If you mean overpriced piece of shit that is only bought due marketing, that was the IBM gear.
Their prices made apple look like xiaomi.

I mean used by "cool", hipster, niche or some kind of reduced special users.

based and flatearthpilled

Then that's still apple.
Amiga was "THE ULTIMATE GAMING MACHINE (please do not look at japan and their terrifying X68000)"

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Jesus Christ, the shit you can get away with at sub MHz frequencies.

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From the perspective of someone who doesn't care much for games, both userbases are equally hipster and delusional 2bh.

Amigas were also quite useful for television jobs. The whole genlocking and animations and shit carved quite a niche for em.
I bet Nasa used the Amiga solely to make Genlock bullshit.

Amiga was a piracy BEAST. My granddad had one.

> piracy BEAST
What do you mean? elaborate

It was the first consumer friendly game orientated computer that featured a floppy disk drive. That made it a monster for piracy for even inexperienced people.

Any idea what they ran on it?
I've been wanting to pick up one of those bloated HPCs for a while.

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So knowledgeable

>As for C, go have a look at NASA's C guidelines.
>Use the preprocessor sparingly.
kek

They might actually be running that app over network X from a midrange Unix box.

There was a lovely description of NASA's very rigorous software testing standards in the Challenger report, along with a note that there was pressure from higher up to relax those standards, as they were expensive and the software seemed to work.

musk>nasa

stupid interns leaving their junk everywhere.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're refering to as GNU/Linux, is in fact, Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Linux. GNU/Linux is an operating system unto itself, but Dennis Ritchie, the creator of UNIX, has stated that a kernel is an operating system proper. The GNU coreutils and corelibs are also not needed for a fully functioning Linux system, as demonstrated by Alpine and a few other distributions.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, because we're too lazy to fucking finish Hurd which is developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a GNU/Linux, and these people are using it, but GNU is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, and again, according to Dennis Ritchie, an operating system proper. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU core utilities, however they are not required for a Linux system. All the so-called GNU/Linux distributions are really distributions of Linux

This, nasa used even Amigas. Does that mean they were exceptionally good? Not really..

Based & Redpilled AF.

>firefox

Kek

takes a lot of computer power to create the illusion of space and a round globe

Toon2watch bro

Notice how no one uses fucking foot.

Not him but you know exactly what you’re trying to do. The truth is engineers and other “smart people” will use whatever fucking tech they want and will ignore weirdo incels like you who think tech is some kind of retard tribal shit. Go get laid, nerd.

>CDE
Shame that it died, really good looking DE.

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that image looks like its from 2011-2013

That's Debian for ya. If it works, don't improve it until it stops.

Doesnt NASA use arch as well?