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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. See...... by MegaHamsterX · · Score: 5, Funny

    You don't have to be a rocket scientist to use Linux...

  2. Now if only... by jconley · · Score: 5, Funny

    they could bridge the metric/english units thing ;)