20 Oct
2013
20 Oct
'13
6:41 a.m.
The NSA is a branch of the military, US Army Intelligence if I recall correctly. On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 18:26 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:
"When the USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) puts to sea later this year, it will be different from any other ship in the Navy's fleet in many ways. The $3.5 billon ship is designed for stealth, survivability, and firepower, and it's packed with advanced technology. And at the heart of its operations is a virtual data center powered by off-the-shelf server hardware, various flavors of Linux, and over 6 million lines of software code."
-- source: http://bit.ly/1aX0Ktb
I always have mixed feelings when FLOSS is used by the military...
Cheers, Peer