> From slashdot.org: <h2>Linux Rocket Blasts Off This Fall</h2> <b>Posted by <a HREF="http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/";>timothy</a> on Tuesday June 10, @12:56AM</b><br> <font SIZE="2"><b>from the fwooooooof dept.</b></font><br>
<a HREF="http://127.0.0.1";>HardcoreGamer</a> writes <i>"An Oregon amateur rocket group, the <a HREF="http://twiki.psas.pdx.edu/bin/view/PSAS/PsasHome";>Portland State Aerospace Society</a>, plans to <a HREF="http://wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,59144,00.html";>launch a Linux-powered rocket</a> weighing 12 pounds to 55,000 feet at a speed of Mach 3 in September, Wired News reports. The rocket's onboard computer is an AMD 586 processor and a Jumptec MOPS/520 PC/104+ board along with a power supply, a PCMCIA card carrier for an 802.11b card to transmit data to the ground, and a carrier board for a 128-MB CompactFlash card for long-term storage. The flight computer runs a stripped-down version of Debian Linux, with the 2.4.20 Linux kernel. The group will present a <a HREF="http://twiki.psas.pdx.edu/bin/view/PSAS/Usenix2003Paper";>paper</a> (<a HREF="http://psas.pdx.edu/psas/usenix_2003/psas.html";>HTML</a> | <a HREF="http://psas.pdx.edu/psas/usenix_2003/psas.pdf";>PDF</a> ) on the use of free software in rocketry at <a HREF="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03";>Usenix 2003</a>. The real question is whether their network card will survive 10 seconds at 15 Gs!"</i> Michael ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Wallis KF6SPF (408) 396-9037 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Wallis: "The only limits to human accomplishment are imagination and ingenuity." _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
