Linux Foundation Says All Major Distros Are IPv6 Compliant

ruphus13 points out news from the Linux Foundation, which announced that all major Linux distributions meet certification requirements for the US Department of Defense's IPv6 mandates. The announcement credits work done by the IPv6 Workgroup, whose members include IBM, HP, Nokia-Siemens, Novell and Red Hat. Quoting: "Linux has had relatively robust IPv6 support since 2005, but further work was needed for the open source platform to achieve full compliance with DoD standards. The Linux Foundation's IPv6 workgroup analyzed the DoD certification requirements and identified key areas where Linux's IPv6 stack needed adjustments in order to guarantee compliance. They collaboratively filled in the gaps and have succeeded in bringing the shared technology into alignment with the DoD's standards."

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Re:Catching up on the competition

[Yfrwlf]

Not that I care about such things, especially that aren't requirements for computer users quite yet but...

A) So since Linux had it stabilized but not DoD-approved in 2005, you're saying MS and Apple had it...stabilized?...in 2000? Were theirs DoD approved back then? Or maybe you're saying in 2005 theirs were DoD approved but Linux's wasn't? B) Linux is open source and driven only by developers who code when there is a need, and there still isn't a need for it so I still don't care about it unlike software which is a bigger target for government administrations like the DoD so those companies might care about implementing it a little more, C) I'm sure Linux had the beginnings of support way before 2005, D) are you claiming the MS or Apple stacks were stable in 2000? I wouldn't be surprised if there were the beginnings of development for it back then in all OSes but I wouldn't think it would have been anywhere near stable back then, but did anyone care enough to actually try it out? Probably not, because again, don't care. E) don't care, F) my epenis is bigger than yours. :D