Karl MacMillan (RedHat) wrote this response to Glenn Faden’s comparison between Sun’s new Solaris Trusted Extensions and SELinux.

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The biggest misconception of this article that I want to address is that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is a “trusted operating system”. It is not and hopefully never will be. Instead, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a general purpose operating system that can meet the same requirements that traditionally required a special-purpose trusted operating system. This distinction may seem small, but it has large implications on the relevance and long-term viability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SELinux.

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