The leaders of several major open-source projects have joined George Washington University’s Cyber Security Policy and Research Institute. Read the report at BusinessWeek.
Linux Luminaries Join Government Effort
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“If successful, the initiative would lead to a single, standard version of Linux code acceptable to the government.”
Does anyone know.. will this be a ‘proof of concept’ version of an OS based on the Linux kernel, stable but outdated, created just to get certification?
If certification ‘takes up to five years’ how can they certify a moving target like Linux?
Or will it be a ‘live’ distro, maintained, updated and available for purchase/download, but highly standardized and conservative?
OpenBSD seems like a better base
I agree… plus they already paid for it.