Bangkok Post: Army Has 'Warlord' Linux

"The Royal Thai Army has implemented its own flavour of Linux called Khunsuk (Warlord) and developed in-house to make the most use of its old computers.

"Military IT Centre Director Col.Rittee Inravudh told Database that development of Linux Khunsuk has been ongoing since 1993 to support a web-based client/server platform for routine administrative work.

"The aim was to save government budget, he said, noting: 'We can still work on our years-old computers at present. This brings a huge cost savings benefit and this helped our project to win the first prize in the Army's IT awards this year...'"

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