I’ve been playing with an idea that would involve running a machine over a delay-tolerant mesh network. The thing is, each packet is precious and needs to be pretty much self contained in that situation, while modern systems assume SSH-like continuous interaction with the user.
Has anyone heard of anything pre-existing that would work here? I figured if anyone would know about situations where each character is expensive, it would be you folks.
Ask NASA
Do they post their software somewhere? What they use for space probes is exactly what I would need, but I kind of figured it would be a trade secret.
I only know that the laptops on the ISS are Thinkpads that run on Debian Oldstable.
But that’s not really helpful for you.
That’s funny. I’m on a really old laptop right now, and I’m running oldstable. Even going up from oldold broke it a bit.
It’s still plenty fast. Moore’s law is a bit of a paper tiger at this point.