[thelist] anybody know what drugs HP is on?

Daniel J. Cody djc at starkmedia.com
Fri Aug 24 09:45:40 CDT 2001


i think this is actually A Good Thing(tm) myself.. it shows that the 
demand for linux(albeit in a slightly more secure version) is there from 
HP's 'enterprise' class customers(military, banking, etc) but they're 
still not 100% with the open source notion.

a good example is Solaris - theres regular solaris and Trusted Solaris, 
which some of the same features as you'll see with this linux distro and 
is aimed at the same market.. some of the changes they're going to be 
making  in their secure version are the addition of available open 
source programs like SSH, Tripwire, AMANDA and SSL

underneath that, you'll see the usual system event auditing, kernel 
level ACL's, filesystem journaling, etc... pretty much everything you'd 
see in a Trusted Solaris brouchure and the kind of stuff that IT folks 
in the military drool over :)

.djc.

Nick Koleszar wrote:
> HP have announced they are releasing their own Linux distro.
> 
> The major selling point is that theirs apparently has security features that
> have long been lacking in Linux.
> 
> "One of the major criticisms of Linux in the past has been that it doesn't
> offer the higher security needed by business computing environments."
> 
> Compared to what?
> 
> http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/08/23/new.linux.os.idg/





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