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Bridging Unix and Windows At NASA

Posted by Hemos on from the making-the-jump dept.

slashdotess writes "Information Week reports: "About a year ago, Patrick McCartney, a Johnson Center project manager, created a Linux desktop environment that could also run government-mandated Microsoft apps. This let his team of 30 engineers continue to program in a Unixlike environment and create Word documents and Outlook E-mail all on the same PC. This mixed-use scenario is slowly taking hold, encouraged by a growing number of applications for running Linux on PC desktops." Score another one for Linux on the Desktop."

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  1. WINDOWS IS THE BEST OS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    w00t!!! another win for bill gates and a extra 10Billion dollars for him!! Bill Gates is the best person in the world all should worship Microsoft!!!

    1. Re:WINDOWS IS THE BEST OS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      yea windows is the best of the best!! screw linux and open-source!

  2. MICROSOFT RULES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    this is why microsoft rules the world,screw linux and open-source, id take microsoft products anyday