shish_mishArtemis II Astronauts Have ‘Two Microsoft Outlooks’ and Neither Work
ArcanolothNice April 1st. I mean that’d be almost as ridiculous as running nuclear subs on Windows, right? Long EOL’d versions at that, eh?
rustles papers
Oh.
popularmechanics.com/…/britains-doomsday-subs-run…
(Though, of course, that’s alledgedly simplifying a lot to make it more click-bait-y: …org.uk/no-trident-doesnt-run-windows-xp/ )
Of course a submarine’s systems won’t be connected to the internet, but using a Windows base with a “Custom Support Agreement” still gives a private US corporation the power to cripple their subs.
IMO something so critical to defense should be built by British developers, and based on OpenBSD.
IMO something so critical to defense should be built by British developers, and based on OpenBSD.
gives a private US corporation the power to cripple their subs.
You, umm, probably shouldn’t look up who maintains the trident missiles those subs carry…
Are they maintained by a private corporation?
I bet it’s Adobe. Turns out making or maintaining nukes isn’t really that hard or expensive. It’s just the subscription to Adobe Apocalypse that’s the real blocker for most economies.