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
