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HP To Sell Custom High-Security GNU/Linux Distro

Posted by timothy on from the what-about-settling-on-debian dept.

bc90021 writes: "CNET has this story about Hewlett Packard's new secure version of Linux. Using 2.4.2, it can supposedly detect attacks as they happen. (At $3,000, I think it should counter-attack, too.) It will be available on HP servers (duh), or on servers that pass the RedHat 7.1 server qualification tests."

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  1. Re:They ship a IDS ? by oingoboingo · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Is it really worth to pay $3,000 for a distro with an Intrusion Detection System like snort [snort.org] configured ?
    I'd say the distro would pay for itself in about 2 seconds if it actually did what it is advertised to do. $3000 isn't much to pay to have HP say "This thing is guaranteed to be configured correctly, and work as advertised.
    Sure beats have the monkeys from sysadmin bollocks around for a whole day on getting the config 'correct', only to find out when it's too late that they misunderstood something.
    If you're going to pay for redundant power supplies, redundant cooling, RAID hard drives and dual NICs to make sure your hardware is done properly, then what's another $3k to make sure your intrusion detection works properly and you can call someone for help if it doesn't?
    (Of course I'm assuming HP will actually answer the phone....)