[Tfug] OT?: Redhat in Afghanistan!

[Eric Gearhart]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Sean Warburton <hl2addict at gmail.com> wrote:

> Im currently deployed in Afghanistan with the 501st airborne, and every now
> and then we have to do convoys, or set up overwatch positions on roads that
> have had lots of IED activity. All the vehicles we use (humvees and MRAPs)
> have an FBCB2 (Force Battle Control Brigade and aBove) which tracks every
> US/coalition vehicle that has an FBCB2 in it, including birds. Its an old
> version of redhat and you interact through the touch screen. It connects to
> the satellite uplink to give you live updates of hotspots, contact, and
> anything else you could want to know. Just got called for QRF, will
> elaborate more later, sorry about the abruptness.
>      Sean
>


When I was in Iraq with the 11th Signal Brigade (Army) we had a Cacti server
(php based and backed by a MySQL database) monitoring bandwidth on the
routers.... FOSS is used by the DoD quite a bit, believe it or not.

--
Eric
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