Ops, the US Army joins the swelling Linux ranks

[Lord Merciless]

US Army has always a tendency to go for the lowest bidder. Expensive stuffs may be not good, but cheap stuffs are never good.

[chequita guevara]

I can't really see the military using Linux for anything important. My buddy used to be a programmer for the Air Farce back in the late 80s, and every change to the software had to come through a serious security check. It was very bureaucratic and made for a very kludgy system. Not that he was all that upset, since, IHO, anything which might forestall the use of his system was a good thing, seeing as he was working on nukes.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Asher
You'd have to take that up with the Army then, they seem to think they have 494,000 PCs that need Windows, 10,000 servers that need Windows Server, and 5,000 exchange servers.

According to Microsoft, that is.

[Asher]

Oh, I forgot. It never happened then.

Oh how nice it must be to live in your own little dream world so consistently.

We all love your weekly "so and so now uses Linux" threads, but for every "so and so now uses Linux" threads you could probably have 50 or 60 "so and so buys Windows 2003".

[aneeshm]

Let's all welcome Asher . Let's also not reply to his trolls , and ignore them if we want his thread to sanely continue , and not turn to a flame fest .

[Nubclear]

Oh come now Aneeshm.
UR obviously created this as a troll to bait Asher.
It's not quite Ashers fault if he turns it into a counter-troll.

[aneeshm]

I repeat , I said that we not respond to his trolls . I'm perfectly willing to debate any points of argument he may have . Implying that some people live in a dream world is a troll , IMO . And it is my intention to warn other , unsuspecting posters not to flame in response . I'm sorry if I got a little carried away . I'll edit out some parts .

"We all love your weekly "so and so . . . . . " is also a semi-troll , too , if we look carefully .

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
Oh come now Aneeshm.
UR obviously created this as a troll to bait Asher.
It's not quite Ashers fault if he turns it into a counter-troll.

It was?

Surely I hope you have some evidence to back yourself up, comrade.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Asher
We all love your weekly "so and so now uses Linux" threads, but for every "so and so now uses Linux" threads you could probably have 50 or 60 "so and so buys Windows 2003".

I love to see you get 50 or 60 organisations the size of the US Army. Or perhaps the PRC?

I eagerly await your statistics.

[Az]

It was?

Surely I hope you have some evidence to back yourself up, comrade.

you're soooo full of ****, UR. This thread has "Asher-bait" written all over it.

[Thucydides]

Honestly I can't see Linux reaching wide spread use in the Army if for no other reason then the fact that Officers are in general too stupid to figure it out. It's hard enough getting them to understand Windows, I should know being in communications in a brigade headquarters. The hell that would unleashed on my commo shop from ignorant officers just starting to use linux would be downright scary I personally love Linux but I don't think it's designed as a system for people who don't want to think, such as too much of the army refuses to do.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Azazel

It was?

Surely I hope you have some evidence to back yourself up, comrade.

you're soooo full of ****, UR. This thread has "Asher-bait" written all over it.

I have been merely adding slowly to the evidence to back up my assertion of the "Linux Domino hypothesis." Sure, it did appeared to be that Glonkie would post his own "rebuttals" almost certainly, but it was never intended to be a flame bait.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Thucydides
Honestly I can't see Linux reaching wide spread use in the Army if for no other reason then the fact that Officers are in general too stupid to figure it out.

It's not that hard to use after being properly installed and configured. It's the same point-n-click GUI.

[Az]

I have been merely adding slowly to the evidence to back up my assertion of the "Linux Domino hypothesis." Sure, it did appeared to be that Glonkie would post his own "rebuttals" almost certainly, but it was never intended to be a flame bait.

Who else would care about such a thing but Asher?

[Kirnwaffen]

The army is quite potentially the most assinine organization on the planet. Thier switching to Linux for a single system is not particularly good evidence for the superiority of that OS. I think that it's fair to say that the best indicator for where the army is headed techwise is the special forces group, and they are currently using Dell PCs loaded with Windows.