HP's Red Hat servers get U.S. security certification

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LinuxWorld.com Feature Story HP earns Common Criteria certification for Red Hat Linux on its hardware - LinuxWorld, 07/17/07: HP says a broad range of its computer hardware running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 has been examined and certified as compliant under the international Common Criteria product-evaluation program backed by the U.S. government and sometimes required for government technology acquisitions. HP's Integrity, ProLiant, and BladeSystem platforms, as well as workstations and desktops, have received the Evaluation Assurance Level 4 (EAL4+) Common Criteria security certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, the version of the operating system released last March. EAL4+ is the highest level of security that unmodified commercial software can achieve. More of this week's Linux news Microsoft strikes GPLv3 from patent deal - LinuxWorld, 7/19/07: Microsoft has revealed that its patent deal with Linspire doesn't cover the new version of the GNU General Public License (GPL), the company's latest effort to distance itself from the GPLv3. Firefox update fixes problem with Internet Explorer - LinuxWorld, 07/18/07: A new update for the Firefox browser fixes an unusual vulnerability that could cause malicious code to run if the browser is launched by Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Xandros buys Linux e-mail vendor Scalix - LinuxWorld, 07/18/07: Linux desktop, server vendor Xandros buys Salix; will maintain versions for Red Hat, Novell SuSE and other platforms, and make Xandros management tools available for those Linux distributions. An interview with Jeremy Allison - LinuxWorld, 07/17/07: By popular demand, a transcript of last week's podcast with Samba maintainer Jeremy Allison. As the software that enables Windows/Linux file sharing switches over to the GPLv3 license, what will be the effect on users, distributions, and appliance manufacturers? Open source invading Australian education - LinuxWorld, 07/16/07: Australian schools are subscribing to proprietary software - but the choice between proprietary and open source may have not been made on entirely equal ground, according to Kathryn Moyle, an Associate Professor who researches issues arising from integrating information and communication technologies into school education at the University of Canberra. Apple acquires CUPS printing software - LinuxWorld, 07/13/07: Apple has acquired the copyright to the code comprising the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS). Italian Chamber approves Linux - LinuxWorld, 07/13/07: All 630 representatives in the Italian Chamber of Deputies are now allowed to request Linux for their PCs and laptops to replace current software, typically based on the Windows/Office platform. Sun looks to steal Linux thunder with OpenSolaris - LinuxWorld, 07/13/07: Looking to steal thunder from the Linux juggernaut or at least catch the same wave, Sun plans to release binaries in Spring 2008 for its OpenSolaris Unix platform, similar to how Linux is offered, as part of the company's Project Indiana. Intel joins One Laptop Per Child initiative - LinuxWorld, 07/13/07: In an unexpected development, chip giant Intel Corp. has joined the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative. The nonprofit project aims to equip children in developing countries with specially designed low-cost notebooks powered by chips from AMD and running Linux. LinuxWorld Community Making it easier to test new kernel releases: Dave Jones, 07/18/07: Linux kernel developers have half of one percent of the diverse hardware available to Linux users. Now you can help QA the next kernel release without switching the entire system to "bleeding edge" software. (podcast, 7:51)

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