Today Red Hatters around the world are celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the first release of Red Hat Linux, the Halloween release, that set the stage for what has become RHEL:
http://red.ht/1tl2KYN Wanted to say thank you to everyone in the community who has participated in the OpenSCAP and SSG communities. Between the OpenSCAP interpreter and SSG projects there has been ~100 individuals contribute code across 8,113 patches and 1,639,072 lines of code [1][2]. OpenSCAP established itself as the only open source, NIST certified interpreter. The SSG project worked with government agencies, such as DISA FSO, NSA, and NRO, to not only release their baselines, but incorporate them into an open source project. RHEL now natively includes these tools and content to natively support security baseline attestation and continuous monitoring. It's been an amazing ride. Back in 1998 I rode my /bicycle/ to purchase Red Hat Linux 5.2 (I was in 5th grade!), as my Windows desktop crapped out. I didn't actually know what Linux was. All I knew was that I needed an operating system, and that the Red Hat box had a cheaper sticker price than the Microsoft one. After installing RHL I began exploring the Linux community, becoming fascinated by it. The open source model fascinated me. As a kid I imagined how amazing it'd be to someday work with the brightest minds possible, to create technology that would be used all over the world, to help make things better on a massive scale. Working with the OpenSCAP and SSG communities has fulfilled that personal dream. I can't imagine collaborating with a better group of people. Sincerely, on behalf of Red Hat, and on behalf of myself, thank you to everyone who has participated in the communities. Everyone here has touched technology that now ships in Linux. Take a second to reflect on that -- it's an amazing accomplishment! -Shawn [1] http://people.redhat.com/swells/gitstats/20141031-scap-security-guide/activity.html [2] http://people.redhat.com/swells/gitstats/20141031-openscap/activity.html -- Shawn Wells Director, Innovation Programs [email protected] | 443.534.0130 @shawndwells
-- SCAP Security Guide mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/scap-security-guide https://github.com/OpenSCAP/scap-security-guide/
