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== [[Trusted Solaris]] ==

Trusted Solaris is a security-focused version of the [[Solaris Operating Environment|Solaris]] [[Unix]] operating system. Aimed primarily at the government computing sector, Trusted Solaris adds detailed auditing of all tasks, [[pluggable authentication]], mandatory [[access control]], additional physical authentication devices, and fine-grained access control. Versions of Trusted Solaris through version 8 are [[Common Criteria]] certified. See [http://wwws.sun.com/software/security/securitycert/trustedsolaris.html] and [http://wwws.sun.com/software/security/securitycert/images/TSol8_7-03CMS.jpg]

Trusted Solaris Version 8 received the [[EAL4Evaluation_Assurance_Level|EAL]]4 certification level augmented by a number of protection profiles. See [http://csrc.nist.gov/cc/Documents/CC%20v2.1%20-%20HTML/PART3/PART36.HTM] for explanation of The Evaluation Assurance Levels.

== [[BAE Systems' STOP]] ==

BAE Systems' STOP version 6.0.E received an [[EAL4Evaluation_Assurance_Level|EAL]]4+ in April 2004 and the 6.1.E version received an [[EAL5Evaluation_Assurance_Level|EAL]]5+ certification in March 2005. Previous versions of STOP have held a B3 certification under [[TCSEC]]. While STOP 6 is binary compatible with Linux, it is not derived from the Linux kernel. See [http://www.digitalnet.com/solutions/information_assurance/xts400_trusted_sys.htm] for an overview of the system.

== [[Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3]] ==

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 is a version of the [[GNU/Linux]] operating system. It was evaluated at [[EAL2Evaluation_Assurance_Level|EAL]]2 in February 2004. [http://niap.nist.gov/cc-scheme/vpl/vpl_vendor.html]

== [[SUSE|Novell Suse Enterprise Linux Server 9]] ==