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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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