[Wolves] Linux Wins!

[Chris O'Rawe]

But America always loses the war! Do we really want to be on the losing
side?

On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 22:33 +0100, Ron Wellsted wrote:
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> Via Slashdot:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/technology/11cybergames.html?_r=1
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> "Brian McCord, part of the team that installed the operating system,
> said he was chosen because his senior project was deeply reliant on
> Linux. The West Point team used this open-source operating system,
> freely available on the Internet, instead of relying on proprietary
> products from big-name companies like Microsoft or Sun Microsystems.
> 
> “It seems weird for the Army with its large contracts to be using Linux,
> but it’s very cheap and very customizable,” Cadet McCord said. It is
> also much easier to secure because “you can tweak it for everything you
> need” and there are not as many known ways to attack it, he said."
> 
> - --
> Ron Wellsted
> ron at wellsted.org.uk http://www.wellsted.org.uk
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