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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. Counter-Attack? by BiggestPOS · · Score: 5, Funny
    Your DHCP server detects a buffer-overflow attack from some jack-ass running WindowsXP. It goes into action, hitting bugtraq to find the latest exploits for the offending OS, found. It firewalls itself off, then passes the appropriate counter-measure information to your mail server. The mail server hacks the machine, shuts down the offending process, and patches the TCP/IP stack with one that DOESN'T have raw socket access. After only a few moments, one less XP machine is 1337.

    --
    What, me worry?
  2. GNU/Linux WTF is that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Is that like Linux?

  3. Testing by Wind_Walker · · Score: 1, Funny
    ...that pass the Red Hat 7.1 qualification test

    Come on, everybody knows that those tests are culturally biased. When are people going to learn that computers who don't have a beige box are economically and societally discriminated against? Non-beige boxes have a higher crime rate, higher drop-out rate, and generally are used for menial tasks.

    Stop the cultural profiling!

  4. Let's Mirror It by Procrasti · · Score: 2, Funny

    If we can just get 150 people to put $20 in each, we can buy a copy of this and then mirror it!!!

    Isn't the GPL great? ;0)