“Anyone who doubts the power of Linux needs only to get hold of
a nifty, hand-held device that the Indian army plans to issue to
soldiers in its million strong army.“It is unlikely that Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, ever
intended this open-source operating system to be put to military
use. But it is a mark of the robustness of this revolutionary
operating system that the Indian army is reposing faith on it–and
indeed, has now completed user trials on the device…”
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