InfoWorld announced their winners of the 2008 Best of Open Source Software (BOSSIE) awards this week.  The complete list is available here.  Several of the winners are included and supported as part of SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell.  One of note is that AppArmor beat out SELinux for the BOSSIE in the category of Application Security.  Why?  I’ll let InfoWorld’s words do all the talking…

The choice here is between two strong contenders: and SELinux. Last year we picked SELinux, included in Red Hat and a favorite with the security community. This year we’re going with AppArmor, due to its superior ease of use and, well, momentum. AppArmor continues to be bundled with Suse and has caught on with Ubuntu and Mandriva. AppArmor protects applications through the use of mandatory access controls: permissions set by the underlying system — not by users — that prevent coding flaws or bugs in applications from being manipulated for malicious purposes.

Congratulations to the AppArmor team and those of all the other BOSSIE winners!  Your leadership and efforts in bringing the highest quality software to the open-source world is greatly appreciated!!

What can YOU do to show your appreciation?  Simply familiarize yourself with these outstanding applications, maybe even try one out, and see how they can help free you…

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