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Red Hat Introduces NX Software Support For Linux

Posted by timothy on from the founder-and-leader dept.

abertoll writes "In this story at ZDnet, Red Hat has apparently added NX support to Linux. NX security technology is a hardware attempt at stopping malicious code." (We recently posted about Transmeta's announcement that its chips will incorporate the NX bit as well.)

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  1. NX Virus....yay by celeritas_2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I personally can't wiat until some great evil makes a virus harnising NX to say.....block the execution of MSIE .....widespread luser panic is always fun

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  2. The NX Bit... by zoloto · · Score: 4, Funny

    And I always wanted processor support for the Evil Bit. Dang.

  3. no execute support new? Nonsense ! by Timber_Z · · Score: 5, Funny

    Windows has supported that for years.

    Why just yesterday it stoped executing for no particular reason.

  4. Just don't add "Halt and Catch Fire" Instruction by xmas2003 · · Score: 4, Funny
    I just hope that with all the overclockers out there, they don't add support for the Halt and Catch Fire Instruction ;-)

    Seriousely, the NX stuff is a "good" thing to add to slow down malicious code - the only thing better would be a HULK Instruction which would SMASH Puny Human malicious code ... ;-)

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