Linux To Become Exclusive OS Of The Intl. Space Station

[Smivs]

An international community working together for the common good, and using a variety of operating systems to do their work.
We have a lot in common with the ISS crew.

[Tricky]

What OS NASA uses is irrelevant. They landed people on the moon with this, APOLLO GUIDANCE COMPUTER, and only have about 17 errors in the 420,000 lines of code that was used in the Shuttle computers. (Commercial programs of equivalent complexity would have 5,000 errors.)

Another interesting article about fault tolerance in NASA systems, The "Bug" Heard 'Round the World. (PDF)

[Disembodied]

More on NASA's computer plans ... what OS will they use for a quantum computer? Schrödinger's Mountain Lion? A much more exciting experiment, that one.