Fwd: Linux reference on subs

Joshua Judson Rosen rozzin at geekspace.com
Mon Jun 6 22:28:55 EDT 2011


"Jon \"maddog\" Hall" <maddog at li.org> writes:
>
> On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 07:24 -0400, Jeffry Smith wrote:
> > 
> > http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/archive/331544-196/uss-new-hampshire-surfaces-on-seacoast.html
> > 
> > quote:
> > "The $2.4 billion New Hampshire is so high-tech that it has no
> > periscope, and uses Linux-based computers to provide deck officers
> > with views of the outside world from various external cameras, using
> > multiple parts of the spectrum."
>
> It was not until I read the comments to the article and saw that they
> were posted two years ago that I realized the article was written in
> October of 2008.
> 
> It would be interesting to see how the Linux systems have performed
> after 2.5 years at sea.

If anyone finds out..., the article in Wikipedia is pretty
scant on details:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_New_Hampshire_(SSN-778)

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