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Re: [SLE] National Weather Service forecast: Linux(OT)
- From: Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 20:27:59 -0500
- Message-id: <200302012027.59723.bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Saturday 01 February 2003 13:20 pm, Paul Cooke wrote:
> On Saturday 01 February 2003 17:17, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> > "About one-third of the agency's 5,000 workers -- those who do
> > hands-on weather forecasting -- now use Linux. They're using Red Hat
> > 7.3 Linux on Intel-based workstations from IBM in some 122 NWS
> > Weather Offices across the nation, as well as in 12 River Forecast
> > Centers, six regional weather service offices and the agency's
> > training facilities. Linux is also being used in the specialized
> > offices of the agency's National Center for Environmental
> > Prediction, including the National Hurricane Center and the Storm
> > Prediction Center."
> >
> > <http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,
> >78061,0 0.html>
>
> Fred... this is NOT an advocacy group. It is a support mailing list.
> If you want to do some advocacy, take it into the correct usenet
> newsgroup, comp.os.linux.advocacy
>
> I'll be waiting.
I for one like seeing items like this.... I doubt if it makes up 1% of
the number of emails sent to this list.
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+ Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx Bellaire, MI 02/01/03
20:27 +
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"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."
> On Saturday 01 February 2003 17:17, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> > "About one-third of the agency's 5,000 workers -- those who do
> > hands-on weather forecasting -- now use Linux. They're using Red Hat
> > 7.3 Linux on Intel-based workstations from IBM in some 122 NWS
> > Weather Offices across the nation, as well as in 12 River Forecast
> > Centers, six regional weather service offices and the agency's
> > training facilities. Linux is also being used in the specialized
> > offices of the agency's National Center for Environmental
> > Prediction, including the National Hurricane Center and the Storm
> > Prediction Center."
> >
> > <http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,
> >78061,0 0.html>
>
> Fred... this is NOT an advocacy group. It is a support mailing list.
> If you want to do some advocacy, take it into the correct usenet
> newsgroup, comp.os.linux.advocacy
>
> I'll be waiting.
I for one like seeing items like this.... I doubt if it makes up 1% of
the number of emails sent to this list.
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+ Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx Bellaire, MI 02/01/03
20:27 +
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"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."
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