[doom] A satellite runs Doom from orbit, using Ubuntu on Arm … Doom runs in Spaaaace! ‘The relevance to an Ubuntu event was that OPS-SAT ran Ubuntu on its dual-core ARM9 chip – specifically, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. It’s not practical or safe to run do-release-upgrade on something that’s not on the same planet, so “Bionic Beaver” it had to be. Plus, because this was an unmanned satellite which he described as being “about the size of a carry-on bag”, there was nobody there to look at it, and so the bird had no display. You can’t see the game running. That was no problem, as Waage had already worked on Headless Doom.’
Doom Runs In Spaaaace!
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