I would think so, though not in the sense that you are thinking of, roadam... they use the kernel and build all the software with some gnu tools on top, technically it was running an ultra customized, minimalistic linux kernel, but aside from that, there was likely very little that would resemble your typical linux system...
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I am curious how would OS react to sudden change of zeros an ones in one of hardvare components due to sudden radiation kick. Maybe three or more processors would be necessary for reliable operation.
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get with the space age, mista, solid state HD, and you shield your electronics extra hard so no sonic radioation gets to it, and you shield your drives even more!.... sheeeeesh... (jk)
seriously, it will start spewing errors into logs.... worst that can happen is a kernel panic... just push the reset button, and you are all good... hey we may take a couple of prizes at once, for sending an autonomous craft to the moon, and another one for sending an IT person to reboot it
Web page control is good and all, but i want to be able to ssh into my lunar bot
OMG epic idea, how about going with this setup, but making that bot a mini ded box. this way we can sell hosting on the moon!
So for processors, etc, i think for the purpose, we should look at mips chipsets, perhaps on fanless mini boards...? USB is good, multiple usb controllers would work awesomely to provide support for multiple devices, as well as programmable controllers.
Lastly, all on board firmware needs to be running on C, and there should be an interface with it, PHP would be cool and all, but its too cumbersome and it is something that can be done from earth, if you only want to control the video cameras... You gotta realize you want to minimize the amount of traffic being sent to this thing, because it is a slow connection with a lot of signal loss. So a scripting interface for the controls, upload a script, it is ran, data is sent back upon completion.... communication speed is not like to a server in your rack, it's more like to a credit card machine in Zimbabwe, if you get my analogy here...batch processing is therefore probably what you will be looking at...
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we won't be using Windows as the operating system
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aaaw, windows would make us have to send an IT guy with the system, i mean you are gonna get a bsod no matter how hard you try to clean up the system... hell i got one just after freshly installing windows, on first logon!
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