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RHEL 5 Announcement: IBM Collaborates On Common Criteria Certification

Calendar Oct 04, 2005 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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The ink is barely dry on all of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 materials, and the company is already gearing up for the launch of RHEL 5. While Red Hat is not being terribly specific about what is in RHEL 5 just yet, the company did announce last week that it is working with server maker IBM and security expert Trusted Computer Solutions to begin the Common Criteria security certification for the forthcoming RHEL 5, which is due in late 2006.

The Common Criteria testing is time-consuming and expensive, particularly since Linux runs on so many platforms. (In fact, more platforms than any operating system in the history of computing.) Red Hat and IBM are teaming up to test the future Linux on IBM's xSeries,

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