Audi's new luxury cars engineered on Linux

For several years, German automobile manufacturer Audi AG, a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group, has been steadily migrating its engineering systems over to Linux. The company hopes to finish the job in 2007 and have the bulk of its servers and workstations running 64-bit Linux by the end of the year.

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Audi is not a Linux newbie; this migration is part of a much longer move to Linux that the company has been making over the past several years, beginning with the deployment of Linux clusters for simulations. "Audi deployed the first Linux cluster of servers in April 2001," says Kienast.

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So although my own Audi A6 is slightly parked these days, at least I can lean back and enjoy Audi's efforts.

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  1. That's cool. Even tho I'm a BSD fan myself, I like seeing Linux making inroads to the business world as well as home use.

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