[Discuss] US Navy buys Linux to guide drone fleet

[Guy Gold]

On Sun,Jun 10 07:33:AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/08/us_navy_linux_drones/
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> By Iain Thomson in San Francisco • Get more from this author
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You know that nobody's in panic when you read this,
keyword - 'Wholesale' :


"After a malware attack on the Air Force's
Windows-based drone-control system last year, there has been a
wholesale move to Linux for security reasons."

I think ( and hope that I'm completely wrong) that the
board/command room meeting sounded close to:

"- OK, we're screwed, the other guys can hack our system any day,
   any hour , any ideas ?
 - "Hey, I know, Linux has almost no viruses, so, we should
   switch to Linux !"


Guy