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How to avoid a BSOD on your 2B dollar spacecraft

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Re: How to avoid a BSOD on your 2B dollar spacecraft

#4

One must have balls of steel to run windows on a spaceship.

Personally, I wouldn't be stoked to run Linux on them either to be honest. But both are being done. Practicality rules I suppose.

Having sourcecode to everything would make me trust things more as at least we could fix things without calling MS.

But what would you run? QNX? BSD?

Re: How to avoid a BSOD on your 2B dollar spacecraft

#5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally, I wouldn't be stoked to run Linux on them either to be honest. But both are being done. Practicality rules I suppose.

Having sourcecode to everything would make me trust things more as at least we could fix things without calling MS. But what would you run? QNX? BSD?

Just because you have the source code, doesn't mean you have the knowledge to fix it before you die.

Re: How to avoid a BSOD on your 2B dollar spacecraft

#6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having sourcecode to everything would make me trust things more as at least we could fix things without calling MS. But what would you run? QNX? BSD?

Just because you have the source code, doesn't mean you have the knowledge to fix it before you die.

Sure, but without it, you stand no chance at all.

Re: How to avoid a BSOD on your 2B dollar spacecraft

#7

One must have balls of steel to run windows on a spaceship.

Personally, I wouldn't be stoked to run Linux on them either to be honest. But both are being done. Practicality rules I suppose.

What's the practical benefit of using Windows here?

Re: How to avoid a BSOD on your 2B dollar spacecraft

#8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having sourcecode to everything would make me trust things more as at least we could fix things without calling MS. But what would you run? QNX? BSD?

Just because you have the source code, doesn't mean you have the knowledge to fix it before you die.

No, but you can review the source code before (or at any point), whereas with Windows, you cannot even do that.
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