Linux Journal: Linux in Government: Security Enhanced Linux–The Future is Now

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 20, 2004

[ Thanks to Tom
Adelstein
for this link. ]

“LJ: Many people, myself included, believe that
SE Linux is the future of Linux. Do you agree? What makes you feel
that way?

“BM: SELinux is now an integral component of
several Linux distributions, such as Fedora Core, Gentoo and the
beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. I anticipate that
publishers of other distributions will soon follow suit and that
SELinux will become nearly ubiquitous. Given that, I’d argue that
SELinux is the quite near future of Linux, almost the present
rather than the future…”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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