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Re:Mysterious safety-tampering malware infects a second site by dv_dt on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @07:51PM (#19629811)
I'll never understand selecting windows for any embedded system that is expected to have a 10+ year life. If you look at their history, they frequently blow up the development environment every 5-6(?) years. Yes they'll provide support, but it comes at being increasingly held hostage to whatever level of long term support costs are in vogue at the time. For a 20-30 year support life, that's a guaranteed headache.
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Re:Mysterious safety-tampering malware infects a second site by snowwindwaves on Thursday April 11, 2019 @01:34AM (#19631428)
You don't install any updates or change anything once the machine is setup and performing its duty. If the hardware fails you replace it with similar hardware and install the original software from CD again. I see windows NT on ships, windows 2000 in power stations, etc.
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Re:Mysterious safety-tampering malware infects a second site by dv_dt on Thursday April 11, 2019 @03:24PM (#19638224)
Weren't failing legacy computers on bridge systems one of the contributors to the Navy destroyer crashes?
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Re:Mysterious safety-tampering malware infects a second site by snowwindwaves on Thursday April 11, 2019 @08:14PM (#19640649)
Improper maintenance of worn out components can cause a failure resulting in a crash, be they computer components, electrical components, or mechanical components.
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Re:Mysterious safety-tampering malware infects a second site by tsukikage on Thursday April 11, 2019 @05:19AM (#19632349)
Linux doesn't necessarily help here. Ubuntu LTS lifetime is 3-5 years, others are similar; outside this, distro maintainers think nothing of just dropping packages from the distro that the deployment may be relying on, so upgrading is not simple.
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Re:Mysterious safety-tampering malware infects a second site by cesarb on Thursday April 11, 2019 @08:58AM (#19633961)
The difference is that with Linux you can self-support, or pay for someone else to do it, since the whole source code is available to everyone and the licence allows it.

Also, a better comparison would be with RHEL, which has a lifetime of 10 years or more.

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