This HAD been announced... (Score 2)

Some time ago I went to the SGI LinuxUniversity in NYC, and they announced at their security track that they would be posting C2 and B1 patches to the kernel soon, and they expect to have 'final' versions integrated before the US goverment requirements for secure OSes kick in. I forget the exact dates, but that is the idea. btw Compaq (DEC) is working on this as well. The reason why they posted the code so soon, is that they don't want to be bashed again as they were last time when they released patches to the kernel... last time they were too late, so there was little time to review the patches, hence large chunks of code were refused (AFAIK). SGI is jumping on the linux bandwagon bigtime, but just on the x86 architecture, and the upcoming IA64. I guess they want to compete with solaris, but not with IRIX.