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Re: US Government Makes "American Linux Desktop Distribution"

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____/ Philip on Wednesday 28 Sep 2011 18:19 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> The Air Force's secure Linux distribution
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>> | Outside of the U.S., there are several ânationalâ Linux distributions.
>> | These include Chinaâs Red Flag Linux; Turkeyâs Pardus, and the Philippinesâ
>> | Bayahnian. Other countries, like Russia, are on their way to moving their
>> | entire IT infrastructure to Linux and open-source software. In the U.S.,
>> | the government, especially the military, makes use of Linux all the time.
>> | Indeed, Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux), the most popular software set
>> | for hardening Linux against Linux is sponsored by the National Security
>> | Agency. But, there hasnât been a national American Linux desktop
>> | distributionâ until now.
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> 
> Good, now the US Government will have a stake in preventing the
> impending Windows 8 secure boot lock out from happening.

Frankly, Microsoft won't get away with it. It's good that a RHAT eng
caught this one early and started a ****storm.

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