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Linux Secure Enough For The Army

Posted by timothy on from the sir-yes-sir-it-is-a-penguin-sir dept.

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."

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  1. An army of one... by keiferb · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...and he's currently playing tuxracer in his eyepiece.

  2. Picky picky picky by devphil · · Score: 3, Funny


    for the abysmally named 'System of Systems Common Operating Environment,'

    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)
  3. Re:one problem of Open Source by FLAGGR · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  4. Re:Ours vs theirs by ajrs · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm still using Slackwar, you insentitive clod!