Today Red Hatters around the world are celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the first release of Red Hat Linux, the Halloween release, that set the stage for what has become RHEL:
Wanted to say thank you to everyone in the community who has participated in the OpenSCAP and SSG communities. Between the OpenSCAP interpreter and SSG projects there has been ~100 individuals contribute code across 8,113 patches and 1,639,072 lines of code [1][2]. OpenSCAP established itself as the only open source, NIST certified interpreter. The SSG project worked with government agencies, such as DISA FSO, NSA, and NRO, to not only release their baselines, but incorporate them into an open source project. RHEL now natively includes these tools and content to natively support security baseline attestation and continuous monitoring. It's been an amazing ride.
Back in 1998 I rode my /bicycle/ to purchase Red Hat Linux 5.2 (I was in 5th grade!), as my Windows desktop crapped out. I didn't actually know what Linux was. All I knew was that I needed an operating system, and that the Red Hat box had a cheaper sticker price than the Microsoft one. After installing RHL I began exploring the Linux community, becoming fascinated by it. The open source model fascinated me. As a kid I imagined how amazing it'd be to someday work with the brightest minds possible, to create technology that would be used all over the world, to help make things better on a massive scale. Working with the OpenSCAP and SSG communities has fulfilled that personal dream. I can't imagine collaborating with a better group of people.
Sincerely, on behalf of Red Hat, and on behalf of myself, thank you to everyone who has participated in the communities. Everyone here has touched technology that now ships in Linux. Take a second to reflect on that -- it's an amazing accomplishment!
-Shawn
[1] http://people.redhat.com/swells/gitstats/20141031-scap-security-guide/activi... [2] http://people.redhat.com/swells/gitstats/20141031-openscap/activity.html
As a kid I imagined how amazing it'd be to someday work with the brightest minds possible,
Glad you got to work with me. :)
I lived in Italy during part of the '90's and ordered a copy of RHL (3?) to install for the ISP I sort of worked at. Good stuff! Enroute back to the US I discovered a friend had signed a book contract to write about the business case for Linux on the assumption I'd help write the technical bits.
Red Hat came to the rescue! Ed Bailey and several others gave me a good bit of time so I could present the business case well. This was long before the suits "got" Linux. RH loaded me up with stuff to read and agreed to package a distro CD with the book.
Leam
On 10/31/14, 1:18 PM, leam hall wrote:
As a kid I imagined how amazing it'd be to someday work with the brightest minds possible,
Glad you got to work with me. :)
Well, every family has that one crazy uncle... ;)
Mushiness aside, the community is amazing. Many have become friends off-line, which shows the strengths here.
I lived in Italy during part of the '90's and ordered a copy of RHL (3?) to install for the ISP I sort of worked at. Good stuff! Enroute back to the US I discovered a friend had signed a book contract to write about the business case for Linux on the assumption I'd help write the technical bits.
Red Hat came to the rescue! Ed Bailey and several others gave me a good bit of time so I could present the business case well. This was long before the suits "got" Linux. RH loaded me up with stuff to read and agreed to package a distro CD with the book.
http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Work-Building-Strategic-Applications/dp/04713334...
^^ that one?
On 10/31/14 18:10, Shawn Wells wrote:
On 10/31/14, 1:18 PM, leam hall wrote:
As a kid I imagined how amazing it'd be to someday work with the brightest minds possible,
Glad you got to work with me. :)
Well, every family has that one crazy uncle... ;)
+=8P
Mushiness aside, the community is amazing. Many have become friends off-line, which shows the strengths here.
Yup.
http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Work-Building-Strategic-Applications/dp/04713334...
^^ that one?
Dang, outed! There are so many ways I could have written better.
Leam
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