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[DPRG] Ubuntu for Robotics
Subject: [DPRG] Ubuntu for Robotics
From: R. Steven Rainwater
srainwater at ncc.com
Date: Thu Jan 10 10:49:10 CST 2008
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 09:25 -0600, dpa wrote:
> Driverless Car:
>
> <http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjI3NA>
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> Might be interesting to know why they chose Ubuntu over
> Red Hat for their Linux robot.
The version of Ubuntu they chose is an LTS release - Long Term Support.
Fedora, the Red Hat product comparable to Ubuntu, only has a six month
life cycle and maybe a year max support lifetime. Red Hat Enterprise
Linux could have been used; it has a 5 year support lifetime but it's
very expensive. So my guess is they picked based on the need for a zero
cost, long term distro with high name recognition. I'd have picked
CentOS but it doesn't have the name recognition Ubuntu has.
Another advantage Ubuntu has is a big organization with a lot of money
behind it, just in case somebody needs to file a giant lawsuit down the
road somewhere. ;)
-Steve
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