On Monday 17 October 2005 18:48, zekolas stood up and spoke the
following words to the masses in /comp.os.linux.advocacy...:/
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> I am writing with reference to a previous post (see "Britain's MI6
>> Open Its Fist Website") just to present some intersting facts.
>>
>> The MI6, the FBI, the CIA, the White House, the Pentagon (among more)
>> are all *nix powered. Ironically enough, Erik could only point out
>> NSA (National Security Agency) as an exception as it is is powered by
>> Windows. See the irony? National security? Windows? Never mind...
>>
>> Roy
>
> Didn't the NSA have their own linux distro at one point, or was
> resposible for SELinux? I remember hearing something about them
> "hardening" linux or something.
The NSA are indeed involved in the development of SELinux, which is a
patchset to harden Gnu/Linux. They are still mainly focussing on the
2.4 kernel generation, and they themselves claim that SELinux is not
intended as a production-ready environment, but rather as an experiment
in security.
> Anyway I know NASA and other goverment funded labs use linux as well.
NASA uses Gnu/Linux clusters. They do have Windows machines as well,
but they are mainly used for plain office work and image projections,
possibly for some image processing as well.
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With kind regards,
*Aragorn*
(Registered Gnu/Linux user #223157)
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