Red Hat Advanced Server Gets DoD COE Certification

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 12, 2003 @12:50AM from the buncha-cud-chewin-hippies dept.

DaveAtFraud writes "CNET is reporting that Red Hat Advanced server has been certified as a 'Common Operating Environment' (COE) when running on an IBM server by the U.S. Department of Defense. Red Hat Advanced Server is the first version of Linux to receive this certification. The certification clears the way for broader use of Linux in governement computer systems. Its interesting to note that the certification effort was made for the more proprietary (and costlier) Red Hat Advanced Server and not the basic Red Hat distribution." This despite the best efforts of certain lobbyists.

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SELinux by mu51c10rd · 2003-02-12 07:34 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Why did Red Hat bother? I think NSA's Linux kernel at their website is probably better than anything Red Hat has put together. Seems a waste of time and effort for the DOD to certify something when they already have a distro for DOD purposes. I recommend SELinux for it's kernel security (it's only a kernel, no fluff). Red Hat is probably just looking for another revenue stream and DOD decided to go along with it.