Steve Witt wrote: > I don't know if this story is true or not, but I hope it is. A guy who is > our sys admin said he read on a sys admin type mailing list that the crew > of the International Space Station are having some computer problems just > like a lot us down here on earth. It seems that the U.S. provided > computers running AIX and Win NT. A Win NT computer is being used as an > SMTP server. Apparently the crew are becoming experienced Win NT sys > admins because they are having all kinds of problems with the SMTP server.
Yes, you can read all about it in the journal of one of the astronauts. > The Russians brought computers running Linux. They seem not to be having > SMTP server problems. I haven't seen any evidense it's linux though, or any mention of what OS it is. OTOH, remember that debian has flown in space before.. -- see shy jo
