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Re:Researchers crack open malware that hid for 5 years by olympus on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @06:10PM (#12258076)
Part of the reason that Windows is an approved OS is enterprise support. When you pay for hundreds of thousands of licenses for a product you can demand features. If the DoD went with Debian they would need an entire corps of developers to maintain government specific patches. Ubuntu offers enterprise support but it's from an African country and that is undesirable as you mentioned above.

I've seen government systems running Windows (USA), Mac (USA) but the strangest I've seen is SUSELinux (Germany). I have no idea how they got SUSE approved when Red Hat is more "American" but some agencies don't have to follow the rules.

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Re:Researchers crack open malware that hid for 5 years by digi_owl on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @06:36PM (#12258190)
SUSE is owned by Novell.
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Re:Researchers crack open malware that hid for 5 years by krylon on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @06:48AM (#12260688)
Not anymore, IIRC. When Novell was acquired by ... that company whose name I forgot (AttachMate?), SUSE was spun off as an independent company again.

At least that is how I remember it.

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Re:Researchers crack open malware that hid for 5 years by digi_owl on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @06:00PM (#12265034)
Yeah it seems things have gotten a bit more complicated than i remembered.

Novell bought Suse, then Novell merged with Attachemate, in the process Suse became a business unit (wholly owned company?) under Attachemate, then there was a merger between Attachemate and Micro Focus in 2014.

Anyways, i suspect that as Suse is FOSS, and was initially Germany based, and now is UK based, both being NATO allies, that DOD has few issues with continued usage.

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Re:Researchers crack open malware that hid for 5 years by circumspice on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @09:57AM (#12261742)
SAP seems to have a strong preference for SUSE. SAP may have stewarded SUSE through accreditization processes.
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Re:Researchers crack open malware that hid for 5 years by powertower on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @07:36PM (#12258422)
It's well known that all of Germany's media, intelligence services, and politics was set up by the US after the war.

From what is seen on the geopolitical landscape, Germany is a vassal state of the US.

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