My suprised what.
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Posted on 06/11/2012 4:46:39 AM PDT by ShadowAce
This is something that the pointy haired manager would say.
LOL- that's fun to imagine. It's the IT support equivalent of the guarding of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Routine trouble ticket SLAs breach within minutes- critical ones within seconds.
While still on active duty in 1994 and serving at a 3 letter agency, we mostly used SunOS transitioning to Solaris; however, they squints started reviewing the Linux codebase. That eventually became SeLinux. Since I have been on the retired list for a while, I can't speak authoritatively about the contractors' activities. My guess is that they are working to incorporate there parts into a beefed up SeLinux as well as locking down all the processes. They probably still need to resolve differences in their efforts and often disparate databases used for support and input.
You can't just grab a copy of Ubuntu or RedHat, install software and go. As I said the codebase must be reviewed, the network must be "blessed", and user management must be certified. Another problem is input/output management. Most PCs and laptops are designed for one person, and miniscule IO. Mainframes and large minis may not have had a blazingly fast processors, but they could handle massive IO.
Mel
Your surprised?
What is Active X....?
If everybody has source code....how can a backdoor of code be snuk in to the open source code?
My suprised what.
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