Red Hat Advanced Server Gets DoD COE Certification

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.

Comments

The Notion

[Anonymous Coward]

The obvious notion: "Not that I really care about military level security for my home computer, but it would be kind of cool to have."

Re:Of course they certify the expensive version

[envelope]

As a Redhat shareholder, I certainly appreciate the decision to certify the more expensive system.

I thought Tinfoil Hat Linux was the way to go?

[RMH101]

http://tinfoilhat.shmoo.com/

Re:Security?

[Anonymous Coward]

vi v. emacs

I thought Linux could only address 4GB of memory. If this is the case, how is it that emacs can run on one of these computers? What changes did Redhat make to allow this to occur?

Thanks in advance.

Will the Green Berets use Red Hat?

[digitalgimpus]

If the Green Berets use Redhat as part of a war (borg like) body suit... will they still be the Green Beret? Or the Red Hats?

emacs on linux

[Anonymous Coward]

Ah, you see linux has a long history of providing support for the emulation of other popular operating systems such as Dos (dosemu), Windows (wine, technically not an emulator), any number of things via Bochs and VMware, and of course EMACS, which is a really great operating system hampered only by a lousy editor. HTH!