[TriLUG] RedHat achieves Defense Dept. Certification!

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 21:42, Frank Hale wrote:

> w00 lets all celebrate... But Lets get real. I've been
> in the US ARMY for almost 7 years and a linux advocate
> for 5, I can assure you from what I've seen that there
> is definitely no plans in place to move Linux in and
> Windows out. While there might be a linux box here and
> there and I'm speculating because I've seen none,
> Microsoft Windows 2000 is the OS of choice and
> something that my organization just upgraded to and is
> still upgrading to. For my organization and I'd rather
> leave its name out of this discussion Linux is
> definitely *not* an approved operating system for any
> network unclassified or classified. If a computer
> doesn't have NT 4 or 2000 then you can forget it.

Frank,

It depends on where you go.  When I was contracting
for the Tank and Automotive Command in Warren, MI,
they used Linux.  Of course, they also used SGI
quite a bit, since they were doing tank simulators
and the kind of graphics we were doing were (and 
still are) a joke on Windows machines.  So, I'm sure
there is Linux somewhere in the Army, you just have to
look for it.

Cheers,
Tanner
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