Same thing happened with the Hubble re-fitting years ago. But that was more
difficult since the HST is way farther than the ISS.

On Saturday, May 11, 2013, Gideon Guillen wrote:

> My guess is that the other reason why they switched to Linux is that
> hardware that is certified for use in space is older than what is used else
> where (consumer and enterprise). That's why they were using Windows XP
> until the switch to Debian. Windows 7 probably can't run on those machines.
>
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>  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/10/iss_linux_debian_deployment/
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