Army groups moving towards Linux at the desktop. (Score 2, Interesting)

Several medium sized Army projects/organizations (50-250 users) in Central Florida are already using Linux at the desktop level. They are also surveying contractors to find out if they would develop with a Linux desktop in mind, and what challenges they see.

In the Army world, desktop security policies are often so strict that users will never run into some of the hardware/software configuration gotchas that remain in Linux...