Linux fails the international community!

[nemaroller]

"The computer system was called, at that time, the Data Management
System. So the OS was called the Data Management System Operating
System. (Really creative, right?) The DMSOS was a heavily modified
version of a COTS (Commerical Off The Shelf) UNIX system called Lynx,
as I recall. "

http://yarchive.net/space/spacecraft/iss_computers.html

Here's the European Space Agency tidbit on the Russian computer's portion of the space station that does the navigation and control for the entire station.

http://www.esa.int/esaHS/ESAOXX0VMOC_iss_0.html

"The DMS-R has been developed by ESA with an industrial team lead by ASTRIUM (Bremen, Germany)."

So, really, its the darn Europeans that screwed it up.