Microsoft and Linux

[Ahmed Sharif]

Hello Joy,
when NSA started researching for a better security model and invented
SELinux, they picked Linux kernel to implement it, as it is open source. I
don't know much about Group Policys in MS win os, but I am quite sure that
they are not the same. At the same time I want to ask you the same question
as *Tosh* did.

regards,

Ahmed Sharif

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Tosh <toshlinux at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anton Hofmann wrote:
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>> Joy Methew schrieb:
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>>> hello all,
>>>                   Redhat gives Selinux security.....does microsoft
>>> provide
>>> this type security??
>>>                   bcoz selinux is very important and robust security.....
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>
>> There is no technology like SElinux for MS-Operatingsystems, you can use
>> Group Policys in Server 2008 to "secure" object access, but that is a
>> big difference compared to SElinux.
>>
>>  I would think the better question is :
> Why are you still running Windows?
>
> And no SELinux is not even generally accepted in the Linux world as a
> standard
> so how/why would other platforms care?
> I tend to keep SELinux on, but it does create some extra work
>
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