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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. A cross between... by 3)+profit!!! · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This "NX" stuff to separate data and instructions is sort of like crossing current CPUs' Von Neumann architecture with a Harvard architecture type of chip, where the storage is actually separate from the executable code.