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Red Hat: Trusted Linux OS Initiative with IBM Collaboration

Calendar Sep 29, 2005 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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Linux vendor has made plans to put its operating system through the paces of a US evaluation program to create the first "trusted" Linux operating system. Red Hat, with help from IBM and Trusted Computing Solutions, said it would put its operating system through the paces of the National Information Assurance Partnership's Common Criteria evaluation program to create the first "trusted" Linux operating system.

The US government's National Security Agency has for years been calling for someone to develop a secure, mainstream operating system that can address system access and other security concerns at the heart of an IT infrastructure.

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