safety critical

Posted Jul 17, 2014 14:24 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: safety critical by marcH
Parent article: The future of realtime Linux in doubt

The ISS laptops used XP until recently (I forget if they went to Windows 7 or Linux though).

Posted Jul 18, 2014 4:05 UTC (Fri) by ssokolow (guest, #94568) [Link] (1 responses)

Linux. Debian 6, specifically.

Posted Jul 18, 2014 10:42 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

Does not look like these laptops are used for any safety-critical feature, are they?