Re: Mission critical Debian
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, David N. Welton wrote:
> Is there any list of people using Debian for mission critical
> applications? Such a list wouldn't necessarily have to include
> exactly what, if the person preferred not to disclose that
> information, but might include a company name, at least.
Well.. In 4 days a mobile robot will enter a robot competition for
autonomous visual guidance. It's control system runs Debian on a cute
little mini PC. The thing is big (moves fast too) and for the application
it can be considered mission critical. (http://www.ee.ualberta.ca/~arvp)
In perhaps 4 months an Argicultural tractor guidance system will be
deployed that uses Linux for it's kernel. Although the system itself does
not run Debian (in 2 meg of flash? Heh) all development is done on Debian
systems and it uses the Debian libc-pic packages. Failure of the system
will result in expensive wasted time and chemicals/seed and even possibly
crop damage (http://www.cultiva.com)
There is a slight chance that in the future a Linux based Mobile Data
Terminal [various applications] will be developed that sports a radio
modem, LCD display, card reader, and a printer, although the system will
likely run windows CE :< (http://www.deltatee.com, but no information
about the custom 486 controller or the MTD, http://www.reimeter.com shows
the companion taxi meter)
I have more details of course if you are interested :>
Jason
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