[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“IBM and SuSE Linux have got security certification for Linux
from the US Government. Acquiring certification, under a Pentagon
certification program entitled Common Criteria, is costly and time
consuming, but IBM and SuSE put in the money and the time. The
certification applies only to the SuSe version of Linux, but Red
Hat is likely to follow suit. The certification will act as a
further validation of Linux for deployment on servers, both in
government and in the private sector. Microsoft gained
certification for Windows 2000 under the same program a while
ago.“Meanwhile Red Hat has filed a lawsuit against SCO, accusing it
of making inaccurate statements about Red Hat infringing SCO’s
rights to Unix. SCO has refused to publicly identify the offending
code, offering only to show portions of it in private under strict
non-disclosure terms…”