The Current Challenges With Using Linux On Airplanes (www.phoronix.com)

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Currently most avionics real-time operating systems for airplanes are proprietary and very specialized for safety assurance reasons

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Wouldn't it be possible to make a Linux kernel for real time applications? That would obviously be very stripped down, but you're not going to run Crysis on your avionics computer anyway.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The problem with modern distributions is that nobody ever has to deal with their own kernel anymore and nobody learns how to trim one down and build it.

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