[Golden Eagle]

Personally, I think Linux is American as apple pie.

Sorry, it's not. It was originally developed in Finland by Linus Torvalds, the son of a well-known communist.

Somehow I doubt it's (the White House) running on Red Flag.

Well let's hope it's not Red Flag, but even if it's not, they still have the same open source parent code, which is free for anyone on the internet to download and examine the source code text base for security flaws.

Thankfully it only seems to be a public site, and not any sort of intranet (which I highly doubt has very much Linux on it at all).

[Jay D. Dyson]

Thankfully it only seems to be a public site, and not any sort of intranet (which I highly doubt has very much Linux on it at all).

Thank God you're wrong.

And on a related note:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/25/technology/25SOFT.html

Summary:
Mr. Gates acknowledged today that the company's error reporting service indicated that 5 percent of all Windows-based computers now crash more than twice each day.

Hmmmm...

sasumata# uptime

 00:23:11 up 643 days,  5:36, 20 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Nufsed.

-Jay

[John Robinson]

free for anyone on the internet to download and examine the source code text base for security flaws

Which is precisely why Linux is secure, for reasons similar to why the strongest cryptographic algorithms are freely available for review. "Black box" security is no kind of security, boxes are meant to be opened.

[Brooklyn_Park_MD]

It was originally developed in Finland by Linus Torvalds, the son of a well-known communist.


Who is his father??