News: Linux Top 3: Red Hat gets certificate, Wayland Hits 1.0 and 3.7 Linux ramps

The common criteria certification process is a long and arduous. Common criteria provides the assurance level of the assessment that is the standard that the United States Government and other large companies use as the basis for the qualification of software for production use.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is now certified at EAL 4 ++ for (OSPP) operating system protection profile. It is a process that has taken almost two years since the distribution of RHEL 6 was released in November 2010.

RHEL 5 received his certified EAL 4 + in June 2007, nearly 18 months after the initial release of RHEL 5 in March 2006.

"This is our 15th completed certification of common criteria for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat win a place at the top of the list of most certified operating systems in the industry, marks" Paul Smith, vice president and general manager, the operations of the Public Sector in Red Hat, said in a statement. "We have committed to safety certifications so that customers with confidence can turn to Red Hat for the experience to implement maximum security levels open source solutions, and our work with Dell, HP, IBM and SGI in this certification reinforces Government clients can run Red Hat Enterprise Linux with confidence in a wide variety of hardware from many of the leading industry vendors".

The passage to a new alternative for X 11 will now start getting real with the launch of the Wayland 1.0 protocol last week.

"As I've said before, 1.0 does not mean that we are done or that the Protocol cannot move forward," Wayland Kristian Hogsberg developer wrote. "What it means, is that we are confident that the Protocol we have now covers the basic functions and we can build any new functionality that we need and in the top 1.0".

Linux creator Linus Torvalds excels the third release candidate in the Linux 3.7 release cycle, on Sunday. The third release candidate is following normal Cadence of liberation to a candidate per week from a combination of code.

The largest Linux 3.7 element remains the unified approach to the arm. Instead of several branches of arm, Linux 3.7 will have one, making it easy to maintain and deploy.

Torvalds also uses the version rc3 to let loose in uninhibited about names, and in particular the name Linus rant.

"The people of Christ, some of you need to change their names," Torvalds wrote. "I am accustomed to multiple s"David"and"Peter"s etc, but there are three different Linus in only this rc." People, people, I want to feel as a unique snowflake, I'm not as an anonymous type in a crowd. I get a broadsword."
Linus "can only be a" Torvalds

Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of the network of edge of business IT, the network for technology professionals to follow on Twitter @TechJournalist.

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