I worked for the government my entire work life. Government is very
slow to change, things take a long time to get implemented and, because
everybody is evaluated on his mistakes, administrators tend to play very
safe.
I have seen government buy last year's hardware and software
consistently because their purchase process is very long and nobody
wants ANYTHING to go wrong. Government also tends to do things in house
that the private sector would out source, so in house geeks, have to
have a comfort level with what is being adopted. Notice that they
didn't get Red Hat or somebody to give them state of the art.
Mark
On 05/11/2013 08:41 PM, Chris Knadle wrote:
On Saturday, May 11, 2013 12:10:12, Patrick Ladd wrote:
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/155392-international-space-station-switc
hes-from-windows-to-linux-for-improved-reliability
Something curious in the article: they state they're going to run "Debian 6"
on these laptops. That's Debian Squeeze, which just became "oldstable" with
the release of Wheezy (7.0). Squeeze will get security updates for about a
year, after which support for it will be dropped altogether. I'm guessing
it's because Wheezy got released just a week ago, so perhaps they want a
release with a longer track record.
-- Chris
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