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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Re:Security? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-12 01:47 · Score: 5, Funny

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? by digitalgimpus · 2003-02-12 04:07 · Score: 2, Funny

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?