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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. Darn. by sploo22 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I noticed Slashdot was down for a few minutes just prior to posting this. I'll assume they were upgrading their servers.

    So does this mean I'm out of luck with all those shellcodes I keep posting in my comments?

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  2. Intel wrote Linux wireless support? by rimu+guy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-5227102.html:

    In addition to the NX work, Intel this year released prototype wireless network support--albeit nearly a year after full-fledged support was available in Windows.

    Don't they mean that Linux had new wireless network support this year? Or was Intel the wireless support contributor for Linux? Either way I think the sentence is in error. Though I'm probably just being pendantic for raising it.

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  3. Re:There you go by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, hey, now maybe we can hope for some other distribution to include this, hopefully one that doesn't suddenly yank their maintainance support out from under you only sixteen months after introducing a product?