[ratdude747]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

The custom blue box Driver Station first used with the cRIO system in 2009 was a Linux implementation.

...and that was the only thing that seemingly worked right... In the world of unreliable FIRST hardware, the only devices that were about as unreliable as the Blue boxes of doom are the 2008 IR boards of doom... only with the IR boards you usually knew when yours was fried (blue smoke); the Blue boxes were random. IIRC a poorly grounded field ruined half of the boxes at the 2009 FiM Champs. Even if you did ground the boxes right, they still liked to fail. The complete and udder failure of the boxes is why we have the laptop/netbook based driver stations we have today.