Linux (Car) Crashes At Indy 500

thanksforthecrabs writes to let us know that the Linux-sponsored Indy 500 car had a rough day at the track this weekend: it was the first car to crash on the track and finished dead last. Joost sponsored a car that came in a respectable seventh.

Of course it crashed..

[Goalie_Ca]

Oblig: Of course it crashed because of a bad driver.

The Blue Car of Death

[Just Some Guy]

Moral of the story: Linux doesn't have good uptimes when you run it on unstable hardware.

Visual data?

[Swizec]

Are there any photos or videos available of the crash? I'm all for linux, but seeing Tux splashed all over the road should be an interesting sight.

No...

[Zatchmort]

That's impossible; everyone knows Linux can't crash. He must have been dual-booting Windows.

The reason was obvious

[Billosaur]

The penguin couldn't see over the dashboard.

Re:Of course it crashed..

[SilentChris]

Bet they tried to drive it wirelessly.

I blame Windows

[Anonymous Coward]

Obviously he couldn't see through his.

Let a bot moderate this one

[Sciros]

Everyone here's gonna post some smartass comment about it all so just have a bot go through and give everyone +5 Funny to save time as well as valuable mod points.

to paraphrase John Glen

[phrostie]

we must be gracious and magnaminous and say, damm i hate it when that happens.

now we know how Bill Gates feels

A driver problem, for sure

[Stringer Bell]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: it's hard to find drivers for Linux.

Yep

[Anonymous Coward]

Poor driver support as usual.

ouch

[nuzak]

That reminds me when Sun Microsystems fielded the only yacht to have ever sunk in the Americas Cup. Sun had this tongue-in-cheek orientation video with a "thrill of victory / agony of defeat" section that showed the video clip of their yacht, with the Sun logo prominently emblazoned on the side, going to Davey Jones' Locker.

Calm down

[John.P.Jones]

Everyone, try not to Panic!

Re:Of course it crashed..

[vmxeo]

Turns out the driver crashed due to a race condition [fh-ulm.de], which as most programmers know, should be avoided for the obvious reasons.

Yeah but

[thewils]

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of them...

Re:Yeah but

[__aaclcg7560]

Burnt rubber in a race condition? Uh, no thanks.

Re:Of course it crashed..

[BosstonesOwn]

That my friend was a horrible joke.

In other news the Windows Vista car was slow off the line, but the car looked good and the driver was heard screaming "accept" as the car lurched forward and stopped every time he used the accelerator.

Oblig pengion joke

[Anonymous Coward]

A penguin walks into an auto repair shop. "There's oil all over the motor and I have to add oil every day," she says. The mechanic says it will take an hour to check out so the penguin leaves.

It's a hot day, and not being an African penguin [wikipedia.org] doesn't like the heat and decides to get an ice cream cone to cool off.

Of course, hot as it is it drips all over her chest. An hour later she goes to check on her car.

"Looks like you blew a seal," the machanic says.

"Oh, no," laughs the penguin, "That's just ice cream."

Drinking

[Anonymous Coward]

I blame the WINE.

Who's panicking?

[spun]

People are panicking? Why are they panicking, is something wrong? And why say "TRY not to," is it so bad that panic is almost a certainty? FOR GOD'S SAKE, WHAT AREN'T YOU TELLING US?

Aswathama hathaha (kunjarah)

[Palmyst]

Balmer can now "honestly" say that Linux is the first to crash.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yudhishtira#Drona.27s _death [wikipedia.org]

Re:ouch

[jinxidoru]

It's actually Will Turner's Locker now.

I guess 2007...

[MLS100]

...is not the year of Linux on the Racetrack.

Re:Of course it crashed..

[toleraen]

"You are trying to brake to avoid a deadly accident. Cancel or al..."

One horrible joke deserves another!

Of course it crashed...

[Refelian]

Considering it didn't have windows.

Re:The Blue Car of Death

[lib3rtarian]

if only they hadn't had all those open windows! Someone should have told the driver to restart the engine and close all those windows!

Re:Let a bot moderate this one

[nelsonal]

So all you're going to see in this thread is, "move along, nothing to see here."

Re:Of course it crashed..

[jd]

I believe it was also in relation to a problem with a Barrier [wikipedia.org].

Re:Of course it crashed..

[mnmn]

Not a bad driver. Just a closed driver. A driver not having been exposed to enough 'eyeballs'.

Not NASCAR

[wsanders]

This is Grand Prix racing, not a bunch of hicks with tractors from NASCAR. You know, super expensive cars, handsome drivers with fancy European names like "Dario", silken ascots worn under tight-fitting racing uniforms, sponsorships by barely profitable Internet firms . . .
OMFG! IT'S 1999 AGAIN!

Not Ready

[Imexius]

Obviously Linux isn't ready for the race-track ;)

Re:Of course it crashed..

[Eccles]

At least the firewall seems to have done its job.

Not "Will Turner's Locker"...

[ClayJar]

He took me to his cabin and he told me his secret. 'I am not the Dread Pirate Roberts' he said. 'My name is Ryan; I inherited the ship from the previous Dread Pirate Roberts, just as you will inherit it from me. The man I inherited it from is not the real Dread Pirate Roberts either. His name was Cummerbund. The real Roberts has been retired 15 years and living like a king in Patagonia.'

Nobody would surrender (their lives) to Will Turner. ;)

Re:I guess 2007...

[senatorpjt]

Well, this is the first port of the kernel to the indycar platform, there are bound to be bugs to work out.

Re:Of course it crashed..

[plover]

It's Vista. ALL the pedals are brake pedals.

RTFM

[Kenshin]

Well, this is what happens when your pit crew scoffs and tells you to "RTFM" when you pull-in for a pit stop.

Re:Of course it crashed..

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually the Windows car only has one accelerator pedal, which you need to press to get to the brakes.

I don't get it

[Nebu]

I'm not sure I understand exactly what this story is about. Can someone maybe post a car analogy for me?

More obligatory responses

[Captain Spam]

Concatenation of the discussion between my brother and I immediately after we heard about the crash:

At first, it appeared to be a problem with the IndyCar extensions to X, given the user was able to take it down to a console-based tow truck (it wasn't pretty, but it at least got a controlled shutdown). However, further investigation showed it was definitely a hardware issue, as the system couldn't get back on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway network after a full restart of the engine. Most probable cause was a network collision.

Re:Of course it crashed..

[cafucu]

The car was destined to crash...it was caught in a loop...

Re:Visual data?

[bl8n8r]

looks to me like the SCO car shoved him.

Re:Not "Will Turner's Locker"...

[Loligo]

>Nobody would surrender (their lives) to Will Turner. ;)

Perhaps not, but lots of teenage girls would gladly give up their booty to him.

  -l

Re:I don't get it

[SeekerDarksteel]

Imagine a car driving at towards a ramp with a person standing just beyond it. The car flying over that person's head is like the GPP's post flying over yours.

Dear Driver

[dvdinslashdot]

Next time try: /etc/init.d/brakes restart and paste results here. Thanx

Re:Of course it crashed..

[superpulpsicle]

But is not the loop's fault. The driver was inherited from a parent driver. He's got bugs altogether.

Re:Not "Will Turner's Locker"...

[jinxidoru]

Nobody would surrender (their lives) to Will Turner. ;)

I surrendered $8 and three hours of my life to him. Oh, what I would give to have it back.

Stallman GNU car

[kavehmz]

Just imaginge RMS in a GNU car in the race.
He will forget the race and heads straight toward reporter's station when one of them calls his car, linux car, by mistake.

It does not metter WHY

[Anonymous Coward]

It actually happened! LINUX CRASHED! now we know something that Bill told us long time ago! It IS POSSIBLE ! linux can crash!