Like the United States Postal Service, the National Weather Service has made the switch to Linux.

Specifically, the weather gurus are using Red Hat Linux (woohoo!) — and they have even replaced both traditional UNIX and Microsoft Windows desktops with Gnome, fortified with the OpenOffice.org suite.

Also of note is the fact that the newly-formed government agency known as the Homeland Security Department has also switched to Linux.

Pretty exciting news.