Jack Aboutboul writes an insider’s scoop as he unravels the truth behind the urban myth about NASA using Fedora and RHEL for their mission-critical machines.

Jack writes:

 There has been a long standing rumor regarding NASA running Fedora which all of us in the Fedora community have been always intrigued by. Is it true? What are they doing with it there? Why don’t they run RHEL. Fortunately enough, a couple of weeks ago, I got to experience NASA behind the scenes, first hand, and hang out with the coolest members of the Fedora community, and find out the answer to these questions and lots more.

Read more about his trip-to-die-for to NASA including the pictures here.

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I came across this nice article from news.com which is another piece of technology about to hit the stores that comes with Linux - Shuttle’s $199 KPC Linux PC.

It’ll have an Intel Celeron processor, a 945GC chipset, 512MB of memory and either a 60GB or 80GB hard drive. What it won’t have: an optical drive or a PCI Express slot. Despite that, it’s a pretty good-looking box, and comes in red, blue, white, and black, each with a different icon stamped on the front.

Shuttle also says there will be a $99 barebones version of the KPC. That version will have the option of upgrading to a Core2Duo processor and 1GB of memory. Both will be available for purchase near the end of the first quarter.

Shuttle is known for its high performance, small form factor (barebone) computers distributed around the world.

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