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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!

  2. 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.