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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. 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.