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Red Hat Seeks to Deliver Most Secure Linux

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the still-need-proper-configuration dept.

Jack writes "ITO is running a story on Red Hat's plan to become the most secure Linux platform. From the article: "Red Hat officially joined The National Information Assurance Partnership to bring an improved level of security and assurance to Linux. This means that the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux will contain kernel and Security Enhanced Linux policy enhancements, developed by IBM, Red Hat, TCS, NSA and the community.""

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  1. Re:RedHat poised to become the next Microsoft by Donny+Smith · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    >So please, elaborate your reasoning. What is RedHat doing that scares you?

    Just one example - they threatened CentOS with legal action. They now can't even say they're Red Hat based (see their Web site, there's some mumbo-jumbo about being based upon a famous North American enterprise Linux distribution).
    So in theory, yes, you're allowed to redistribute, even for commercial purposes. In reality, though, they'll screw you up if you start doing well.