There were lots of interesting topics discussed in the recent Ubuntu Summit, but one in particular might just tickle the fancy of most any techie above 30: the story of how Doom was actually running in space. Programmer Ólafur Waage data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zthssUIFG6c”>recounted the tale of when his team took part in the European Space Agency’s hacking challenge and got the seminal game running on a satellite.
The satellite in question was the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Mission_complete_for_ESA_s_OPS-SAT_flying_laboratory”>now-decommissioned OPS-SAT “flying laboratory,” whose sole purpose in life was to be a…

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