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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. Cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That's pretty neat.
    this is my f1rst p0st on slashdot

  2. what about SEX by anandpur · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    what about SEX support

    1. Re:what about SEX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Sorry dude, this is Slashdot.

  3. 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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  4. Re:This proves that Red Hat Linux is the best by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Haha, nice trolling attempt. Nothing brings out the zealots faster than a distro war.

  5. Selling out by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OT, but anyone notice the Windows advert above this story with some 'statistics' showing Windows has a lower TCO? These are the same statistics that /. ridiculed not so long ago. Talk about two-faced.

    And for an even more disgusting example, go to http://www.vasoftware.com/ - where they're actively promoting outsourcing all your jobs away.

    Utter bastards.

    1. Re:Selling out by The+MESMERIC · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Cool!
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  6. 503 Error by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    503 Error The webserver and/or database is losing.

  7. Re:FRIST REAGAN SUX POST by sploo22 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The man just died today, can't you even show an ounce of respect? I understand you're desperate for things to troll about, but that was just sickening for you to go after Reagan like that.

    I know this is OT but I just couldn't stand to read this without saying something.

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  8. GET SOME PRIORITIES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Do you even WATCH the news? This is *NOT* important.

  9. Saturday night, reading slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic



    And I wouldn't have it any other way, baby!

  10. why does everyone have the #934? by tetrahedrassface · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    why does everyone posting have the #934 in their id number? Conspiracy? Just look and ye shall see. :)

    1. Re:why does everyone have the #934? by tetrahedrassface · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      btw that was a joke...

    2. Re:why does everyone have the #934? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      bleh... joke..haha.

    3. Re:why does everyone have the #934? by MikeXpop · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      um, that's not their ID number. That's their post number.

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    4. Re:why does everyone have the #934? by tetrahedrassface · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      good god. it was a joke. :) Give it a rest.

    5. Re:why does everyone have the #934? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You see, if you tell a joke, and it's not the least bit funny, you've sort of missed the whole point.

    6. Re:why does everyone have the #934? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      note to s3lf: jokes=funneh.. tanks!!

    7. Re:why does everyone have the #934? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Clearly you suck at not getting your karma blasted to hell. :P

  11. Please mod this up, and mod parent down! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There! :)

    1. Re:Please mod this up, and mod parent down! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      we could always opt for some sort of sideways moderation. though its complicated. Left-Right. Jeez the choices one must make. :)

  12. Sad news ... Ronald Reagan, dead at 93 by Three+Headed+Man · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just heard some sad news on talk radio - President/Actor Ronald Reagan died in his home this morning. There weren't many more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his presidency, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

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  13. 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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  14. Mod this crap down a man died. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yeah. i soul died, mod down in the name of Karma.

    1. Re:Mod this crap down a man died. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I like how you mourn the loss of a demented fascist but not the 1,000s of people dead because of his policies.

  15. 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?