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SUSE Awarded EAL4 Certification

Posted by timothy on from the lockup dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Following in the wake of its previous certifications, Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 has achieved EAL4 certification on 'an IBM eServer.' This puts SLES9 in the same league as Windows 2000 for sales in the government sector and is the first Linux distro to achieve an EAL4 certification."

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  1. Same League as Windows 2000..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    .......oh fuck!

    1. Re:Same League as Windows 2000..... by eno2001 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hehehe... nice try at trolling. But how can anyone named "LordNimon" be trusted? Get thee back to the leisure hive! LOL!!!!111 (Note: I think you foed me once in a past life here on /.)

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  2. Wasn't there .... by Alien54 · · Score: 3, Funny
    A certification some time ago that Windows was completely secure on a network, so long as you didn't actually connect it or plug it in to the network?

    I think the MS has improved on that with 2k, etc. , but I'm not sure.

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    1. Re:Wasn't there .... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, its meanless except for a small class of government applications. Unfortunately, Microsoft drank their own koolaid and started marketing the certification as a general security feature.

      "Windows NT's Security Certification means that firewalls are optional" -- actual bullshit advice from a microsoft document in the mid-90s.

    2. Re:Wasn't there .... by morcego · · Score: 2, Funny

      There was some rumors a few years ago about Windows NT getting a C2 "certification" only when you did things like disconecting the floppy drive.

      I actually think most of this was the old "poking fun at Microsoft", tho. I mean, if that was the case, I doubt it would get certified.

      On the other hand, I never had much respect for those rainbow certifications.

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  3. Re:Im really bad at topics/subjects by Goalie_Ca · · Score: 2, Funny

    Throw out a few more permutations of the alphabet please. I enjoy reading cryptic bullshit.

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