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Fedora on the Final Frontier (MadRhetoric)

Posted Mar 1, 2008 23:18 UTC (Sat) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767)
Parent article: Fedora on the Final Frontier (MadRhetoric)

While I'm certainly happy to see Fedora, CentOS, and RHEL being used at NASA, I could not help
but be amused by the way the story ran:

1. Look!  A Fedora login screen!  Cool!

2. Look! A RHEL login screen! Cool!

3. *yawn*... there's a 512 processor SGI, running IRIX, doing some image analysis.  Nothing to
see here...

4. Look! A CentOS login screen! Cool!

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Fedora on the Final Frontier (MadRhetoric)

Posted Mar 2, 2008 2:47 UTC (Sun) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Ah well. I noticed that also.

But you can rest assured that Irix is pretty much dead in the water. That was effectively a
'legacy' system and I expect that any time you'd want to buy a new SGI cluster it's going to
use Linux.

Fedora on the Final Frontier (MadRhetoric)

Posted Mar 2, 2008 19:05 UTC (Sun) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

CentOS is only mentioned in the comments to the main stroy. The only Fedora login screen is in the text mode and suggests that it's Fedora Core 4 with 2.6.12 kernel. There is also a Windows screen, apparently in need of some critical updates.