Boeing has made Linux open source software available in the military field

Once open-source software was regarded as a cheap solution that could not reach the stage, and this idea will surely be overturned. A few days ago, Boeing said it would apply the Linux open-source operating system to a new military aircraft. According to the New York Times, the partner selected by Boeing is Wind River, a Linux operator. It is reported that an open resource operating system will be used in the future military aircraft of the Multi-missile Maritime of P 8A, the plane, modified from the famous Boeing 737, will be sent to Navy, the US Navy, and responsible for submarine searching and other reconnaissance tasks.
In fact, today's Linux has been widely used in embedded computing systems, such as network devices and mobile phones, and Wind River orders show that in the field of embedded computing such as military and aviation, open resources can also play an important role. On the same day of the release of Boeing orders, Wind River also said that it would release its 0.3 million lines of open source code to the Eclipse Foundation, which is mainly responsible for collecting open resources. On the other hand, Wind River also released the 1.3 software package, including the device drivers optimized for the Linux operating system. It is reported that this product is mainly for the mobile phone market, especially today's popular smartphones. According to Wind River, the new software occupies a small amount of system resources. The total memory consumption of Linux kernel, drivers, system files, and network functions will not exceed 4 MB.