Audi's new luxury cars engineered on Linux.

Yannis · 01-03-2007, 10:19 AM

Audi's new luxury cars engineered on Linux

For several years, German automobile manufacturer Audi AG, a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group, has been steadily migrating its engineering systems over to Linux. The company hopes to finish the job in 2007 and have the bulk of its servers and workstations running 64-bit Linux by the end of the year...

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Maserati · 01-03-2007, 01:34 PM

Interesting news. Wonder what other manufacturers are using. Is that why they their designs simple and elegant Yannis ?

NarutoRamen · 01-03-2007, 02:15 PM

Thats great, at least it's stable. Plus it's not like the engineers need to play games or something. But aren't these manufacturers using Unix system?

Giannis · 01-03-2007, 02:31 PM

64-bit systems?

wow!!!

Osnabrueck · 01-03-2007, 02:39 PM

I don't know why any of us would give a flying fart about what OS engineers are using to run their various departments. The only thing this tells us about Audi is that they're keen to keep down IT related overhead.

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Yannis Philosopher Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 7,198 My Mood: Thanks: 1,243 Thanked 1,229 Times in 701 Posts	Audi's new luxury cars engineered on Linux. Audi's new luxury cars engineered on Linux For several years, German automobile manufacturer Audi AG, a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group, has been steadily migrating its engineering systems over to Linux. The company hopes to finish the job in 2007 and have the bulk of its servers and workstations running 64-bit Linux by the end of the year... Full story: - ONLY REGISTERED AND ACTIVATED USERS CAN SEE ALL LINKS - CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

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Osnabrueck Fanatic Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 1,858 Thanks: 233 Thanked 203 Times in 128 Posts	Re: Audi's new luxury cars engineered on Linux. I don't know why any of us would give a flying fart about what OS engineers are using to run their various departments. The only thing this tells us about Audi is that they're keen to keep down IT related overhead.

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