Linux Used by All Branches of U.S. Military
I thought it was cool to see another Linux adoption story, this time by the U.S. Army. One of the best quotes from this article:
“Red Hat 5 will link Linux with Microsoft and allow FCS forces to link with other brigade combat teams,” the Army official said. “This will be an interim solution because over the long haul, eventually all of the Army’s networks will be Linux-based.”
They plan eventually to have the whole thing running Linux.
Actually, Linux is being employed currently by all of the branches of the U.S. Military.
U.S. Army
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U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps
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U.S. Air Force and Army – Linux clusters gear up for simulated combat
U.S. Department of Defense – IBM To Build Supercomputer for US Military
Pentagon & Department of Defense – OF ARMS AND LINUX
Army National Guard – Army National Guard Using Linux
Autonomous Military Ground Vehicle
Linux powers autonomous military ground vehicle
Commercial Linux to power military drone
U.S. Military – US Military Testing IBM Speech Translation Technology
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February 7th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Red Hat 5? How old of article are we JUST NOW reading, LOL? I think I still have a copy of Red Hat 5.2 they could upgrade to.
February 7th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
It’s Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and the Defense News article was posted on 02/04/08 so very recently.
February 12th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
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