Rant No Defense for Linux

[Brian Densmore]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles, Joshua Micah (UMKC-Student)
> 
> From the article:
> 
> >The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requires software that 
> >runs commercial (and many military) aircraft be approved as part 
> >of a DO-178B certification. DO-178B Level A is the highest safety 
> >standard for software design, development, documentation, and 
> >testing. It is required for any software whose failure could cause
> >or contribute to the catastrophic loss of an aircraft.
> 
> >Several operating systems have been DO-178B Level A certified. Until 
> >Linux is certified to DO-178B Level A, our soldiers, 
> sailors, airmen > >and marines should not be asked to trust their lives with it.
> 
> He makes a point here, I think.
Then I guess he's saying we should all trust Linux.

Here's a Linux version certified to DO-178b Level A
http://www.embeddedstar.com/press/content/2003/4/embedded8445.html
Lynxworks embedded Linux.

Let's see a Windows version of that. Sure his company has one. It's not that hard to do.
Also the EAL4 level Windows he's talking about you can't buy at Best Buy.
It's a custom build and you're not going to get it for $200.

This guy is *Nothing* but another M$ FUDDER. Nothing to see here, move along.

The only point this guy could possibly make is that we shouldn't necessarily trust
a generic out-of-the-box Linux version to run as a real-time OS. You'd want to buy
a Linux Real-time OS version for something like that.

Brian

P.S. Groklaw and /. have already rebutted all this guy's BS