RHEL certified at EAL4+

James Morris notes that Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been certified at the EAL4+ security level - at least when properly configured on certain IBM server systems. "A lot of people thought it would be outright impossible to get an open source OS certified at this level. Not only were they wrong, but we've done it in a way which makes it part of the mainline kernel, upstream userland, and integrated into standard distributions. It is not some out-dated, incompatible and outrageously expensive fork of the OS, as has historically been the case with trusted OSes. 'Military-strength' security is just now just another feature you get as standard in Linux, and it receives the same testing and community benefits as the rest of the OS."

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