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Linux Secure Enough For The Army
LordPixie writes " As summarized over at Defense Tech, the U.S. Army is soon to be infected with the infamous OSS virus. They have chosen Linux as the operating system for the abysmally named 'System of Systems Common Operating Environment,' a part of Army's planned Future Combat Systems."
Does MS and SCO know about this?
How many days until TPTB change this decision?
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
...and he's currently playing tuxracer in his eyepiece.
Look, you can either take whatever acronyms they hand out, or suffer under "backronyms" like PROTECT and PATRIOT. They don't know how to do anything else.
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
I can't wait for the Zealots to start arguing which distro is best:
-USA Army Linux Combat Integration System
-Deutsch Bundeswehr Linux Tactical Strike Module
-PRC Linux Command and Control
-Al-Quaeda Linux Insurrection III
You know, Mr Torvalds will have to do like Mr Nobel before it's all over.
"Piter, too, is dead."
SgtJenkins@military.mil$ drop bomb
-bash: drop: command not found
SgtJenkins@military.mil$ make bomb
make: *** No rule to make target `bomb'. Stop.
SgtJenkins@military.mil$ kill terrorists
-bash: kill: terrorists: no such pid
SgtJenkins@military.mil$ man i want windows back
No manual entry for i
No manual entry for want
No manual entry for windows
No manual entry for back
Sgt Jenkins: Finally we found Bin Laden. Better call in an airstrike with MS Airstrike TM.
Clippy: Hi thank you for using MS Aistrike would you like me to A: Explain countless options you already know or don't care about. B: Ask me a question I won't answer but I will keep offering to answer your question. C: Call airstrike on allied position.
Clippy: You just closed me, please remember I will randomly come back to annoy you.
Sgt Jenkins: Finally, lets see enter the coordinates, open several dozen tabs and extra control apps hidden all over the place edit the registry.
Windows: Do you want to download the latest version of Microsoft Airstrike TM?
Sgt Jenkins: Hell no just do it!
Windows: Windows Airstrike TM has crashed please submit a bug report.
Sgt Jenkins: Oh goddamn upgrade the damn thing.
Windows: installing latest updates that where released with MS knowing full well that in their own test 2 out of 5 machines did not survive.
Windows: please reboot.
Sgt Jenkins: Were screwed. Is there ever going to be an war in wich I will not get the weapons created by the company with the biggest bribes?
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.