Soldier uses Linux in war and peace

In 2003/2004, Jeff Schroeder served in Iraq, flying a tiny remote control spy plane and servicing Unix/Linux systems on the battlefield. Schroeder learned a lot of technology in the desert, and now he's busy working as a Web administrator for Comair Airlines, writing utility scripts for Ubuntu. He says Linux is going to "take over the world."

Wow, now that is an interesting story, from being introduced to linux in high school, to using it to control UAV's. What is interesting is that I did not know that the Army's Land Warrior program, was going to use tiny interegated Linux computers....score one for Linux. Personally I wasn't introduced by anyone really to linux, I just ran into it on the net in middle school. Basically I was a self taught Linux user, though still many of my comptuers run windows, for gaming mainly. Anyway, in the article, his story of being introduced to linux, to using his experiences in both the army and before that in his current job shows the increase in more corporations, and other areas, but has not penetrated the desktop market as well, though support in the desktop area is getting better. Back in 2001, Linux was more rough edged, and not as many things worked as well, though up to this day, this has improved in the kernel updates, as well as other components. Overall, Linux is on the track to becomming an economical operating system in the destop area, though it will still take some more time, to iron out more issues with it, until it becomes more adopted....

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