Open-Source Software and Its Role in Space Exploration, by DJ Byrne

Date Arrow  June 6, 2007

http://www.cio.com/article/111950

Please bear with me a moment; I’d like to make a point about how much FOSS enters into this. Each of the following are FOSS project technologies used in the program. The flight software is mostly C, with some assembly for trap handling. It lives on file servers running kerberized OpenAFS, in a CVS repository, and is cross-compiled on Linux for RTEMS on SPARCv7 target chip. The code is built with gcc, make and libtools, and linked with newlib. (There, that wasn’t so bad. I’ll mention it again later.)

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