Abstract :
The article discusses several interesting applications of Linux, in a wide variety of environments. These include an oceanographic lab running remote and inaccessible sensors, the development of a high-speed network on a shoestring budget, a publishing company that evolved from two people and a Unix box to 15 people on Linux workstations, the development of “soft real-time” control systems in Europe and South America, a military contractor building complex real-time embedded applications, and the use of a Beowulf cluster computer for supercomputing tasks such as weather simulation
Keywords :
Unix; computerised control; military computing; oceanography; operating systems (computers); publishing; real-time systems; Beowulf cluster computer; Linux; embedded applications; high-speed network; military contractor; oceanographic lab; publishing company; real-time control system; remote sensors; supercomputing; weather simulation; workstations; Control system synthesis; Europe; High-speed networks; Linux; Military computing; Publishing; Real time systems; Sensor systems and applications; South America; Workstations;
