Red Hat Introduces NX Software Support For Linux

abertoll writes "In this story at ZDnet, Red Hat has apparently added NX support to Linux. NX security technology is a hardware attempt at stopping malicious code." (We recently posted about Transmeta's announcement that its chips will incorporate the NX bit as well.)

NX Virus....yay

[celeritas_2]

I personally can't wiat until some great evil makes a virus harnising NX to say.....block the execution of MSIE .....widespread luser panic is always fun

The NX Bit...

[zoloto]

And I always wanted processor support for the Evil Bit. Dang.

no execute support new? Nonsense !

[Timber_Z]

Windows has supported that for years.

Why just yesterday it stoped executing for no particular reason.

Just don't add "Halt and Catch Fire" Instruction

[xmas2003]

I just hope that with all the overclockers out there, they don't add support for the Halt and Catch Fire Instruction [ic.ac.uk] ;-)

Seriousely, the NX stuff is a "good" thing to add to slow down malicious code - the only thing better would be a HULK Instruction [komar.org] which would SMASH Puny Human malicious code ... ;-)

Re:NX Virus....yay

[Anonymous Coward]

LOL block IE because it's DANGEROUS LOL LUSERS LOL BILLGATES M$.

You're fucking pathetic. Throw yourself off of a goddamn bridge.

Space the Final Frontier...

[Quantum Jim]

I'm Captain Jonathon Archer of the starship, Red Hat Enterprise, NX-01 class security. ;-)

Re:The NX Bit...

[Anonymous Coward]

AIDS=Apple Infected Disk Syndrome

Read the Jargon File lately?