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Secure your Linux box by locking it down and posting a guard to watch for intruders

 

system-intrudersTripwire is a standard package for many Linux distros, and even when it's not installed by default, it's only a click away in your Package Manager

 

There's no doubt that Linux is a secure operating system. However, nothing is perfect. Millions of lines of code are churned through the kernel every second and it only takes a single programming mistake to open a door into the operating system. If that line of code happens to face the Internet, that's a backdoor to your server.

 

http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/catch-system-intruders-with-linux-467913

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Dirac Compression System

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Dirac is a video compression system that provides general-purpose video

compression and decompression tools comparable with state-of-the-art

systems. Dirac is a format and compression technology, not a specific

codec. The most important part of the Dirac project is the specification

which can be found at http://diracvideo.org/specifications

 

http://lwn.net/Articles/298755/

[gtroza]

Powered by the 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, the Toshiba NB100 comes in two variants – one with Linux Ubuntu 8.04 with OpenOffice 2.4, while one offers Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition.

 

http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/17730/18754/toshiba-nb100-netbook-uk.phtml

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[gtroza]

Latest Puppy News

Saturday 20th of September 2008

 

There is alot going on in the Puppy Derivatives discussion at the puppylinux.com site today. Puppy derivatives are not some new financial scheme to make money for sneaky people; rather they are distributions that are based on one of the official releases of Puppy Linux. First on the list at the moment is Muppy Linux 008.4c Final. which was originally based on Puppy 3.01 There are a couple of versions, including Muppy-Mini (150MB) and Muppy Live (800MB). Versions of the KDE and Gnome desktops are also available as options. Muppy is set up to install the latest programs from Slackware 12.1.

 

http://www.puppylinux.org/home/latest-news

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/index.php?f=35

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1. Introduction

 

Approximately 212 RFCs, or about 7% of RFCs issued so far, starting

with [RFC269], contain the terms `foo', `bar', or `foobar' used as a

metasyntactic variable without any proper explanation or definition.

This may seem trivial, but a number of newcomers, especially if

English is not their native language, have had problems in

understanding the origin of those terms. This document rectifies

that deficiency.

 

http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2008/09/more-gutbusting-rfcs-linux-and-unix.html

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"Linux publisher Mandriva has unveiled a version of its platform designed specifically for the new breed of mini laptops. Mandriva Mini features a fast boot-up, comprehensive connectivity support and multimedia codecs, and is adapted to work on key netbook platforms such as Intel's Atom. Mandriva previously offered a customised version of its 2008 Spring release for the Asus Eee PC, and was a distributor of Linux for Intel's Classmate PC initiative."

 

http://mobile.slashdot.org/mobile/08/09/21/0753245.shtml

-----Προστέθηκε 22/9/2008 στις 10 : 36 : 09-----

Network-audit tool for Linux phone announced

A handset-based network-penetration tool that runs on a Linux phone has been announced in the US.

 

The NeoPwn tool is based on a modified Linux 2.6.24 kernel, and will let IT professionals toggle between two modes — 'phone' and 'pwn'. The software stack runs on the Openmoko Neo FreeRunner Linux handset, which offers USB WLAN support, a GPS modem, a GPRS modem for cellular connectivity, and a CSR Bluetooth module.

 

Pwn mode enables Wi-Fi and Bluetooth network-penetration testing, through the use of tools including Aircrack and Metasploit. While there is no hardware Qwerty keyboard, NeoPwn claimed the FreeRunner's touchscreen keyboard is "more usable than the iPhone and Nokia Nseries".

 

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39492227,00.htm

-----Προστέθηκε 22/9/2008 στις 10 : 37 : 54-----

ReiserFS File System Corruption and Linux Recovery

 

ReiserFS is the Journaled file system used for the Linux operating system. For the various features of this file system like metadata- only journaling, tail packing and online resizing, it is well adopted by the users who rely on it as the repository of data references.

 

 

 

So the reliance indicates that how critical it is that the integrity of the file system may remain maintained and depart from any corruption issues. But on the contrary of the ideal scenario, the corruption in this file system may occur, which can force you to think about Linux data recovery solution, as all the references of the stored data get wiped out with the corruption of the file system.

 

 

 

The unexpected system shutdown, virus attack like problems may craft this scenario of data loss. At the time of corruption, the popped up screen may suggest you to use ´reiserfsck-rebuild-tree´, but one should be aware of the fact that at the point of file system corruption, attempting to rebuild the tree may corrupt the existing file more harshly and thus creating the critical obstacles for Linux recovery. New entries may be introduced with the gibberish contents.

 

 

 

Some of the other error messages may indicate that something is going fishy with the file system and thus the proper fix is needed to be deployed. After this, the data remains inaccessible as all the entries of the data gets removed, giving you a hard drive which appears particularly empty, which in reality is not.

 

 

 

For data recovery Linux, only the proper mechanism is required. The data is still there on the hard drive and can be fetched out with the suitable algorithms. The Linux data recovery software can well perform this from their targeted scanning algorithms.

 

 

 

In case of file system corruption, the Linux recovery must not reference the file system, as this has been refreshed and thus the feature like RAW File Recovery must be there in the software to cope the particular situation.

 

 

 

Data recovery Linux software avail the interactive user interface to the users and are available for different file systems. With the varying set of features, these Linux recovery products maintain the integrity of the data.

 

 

 

Stellar Phoenix Linux Data Recovery software is the most developed and advanced data recovery utility which follows the superb mechanism to scan the affected hard drive with the well-built algorithms. The software supports Ext2, Ext3 and ReiserFS file system and offers you complete and valuable Linux data recovery options.

 

 

 

The RAW File Recovery option of the software is valuable for the file system corruption like issues. This data recovery Linux software can recognize each file type.

 

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/74999

-----Προστέθηκε 22/9/2008 στις 10 : 41 : 12-----

Free Linux driver development

 

Open source drivers will become an imperative, rather than a choice, for device manufacturers who want to break into new markets and extend their user base.

 

http://www.itpro.co.uk/606360/free-linux-driver-development

-----Προστέθηκε 22/9/2008 στις 10 : 42 : 39-----

Microsoft refers to its anti-Linux playbook to attack VMware

 

In a move reminiscent of its “Get the Facts” anti-Linux campaign, Microsoft is waging war on VMware with a customer-focused Web site that provides the Redmondian spin on how its products stack up against the competition.

 

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1601

Επεξ/σία 22 Σεπτεμβρίου 2008 από DIMITRISG
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[Αδμιν]

Να μας ζήσει!

[gtroza]

δηλαδή το ¨πιτσιρίκι¨ της red hat, πάει νήπια ;

να ζήσει !

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[DIMITRISG]

Χρονια πολλά και καλή πρόοδο !

Σε αντιθεση με τους περισσοτερους εδω, εχω αδυναμια στην σχολή redhat και στις rpm διανομες

Επεξ/σία 24 Σεπτεμβρίου 2008 από DIMITRISG

[capthookb]

Στις 23 Σεπτεμβρίου 2008 ανακοινώθηκε επίσημα η έκδοση Xorg7.4 και xserver 1.5.0

Χαρακτηριστικά:

 

 

• PciReworkProposal: PCI bus scanning/accessing code replaced with libpciaccess (IanRomanick).
  
• MacOS X updates: Xquartz fixes, launchd support, and more (BenByer and JeremyHuddleston)
  
• x11perf 1.5: Compositing tests added.
  
• xtrans 1.1: Support for abstract socket namespace under Linux.
  
• xf86-input-evdev 2.0.x: Many stability and completeness fixes, should work out of the box with a large range of devices, plus middle-button emulation for mice.
  
• xf86-video-ati 6.9.x: Support for r5xx/r6xx/r7xx (RadeonHD 1xxx/2xxx/3xxx) devices added, including textured video for r5xx. Full RandR 1.2 support for all chipsets.
  
• EXA: Numerous speedups (inc. font rendering), cleanups, and correctness fixes.
  
• libX11 1.1.5: Numerous i18n additions and fixes (JamesCloos).
  
• xorg-server 1.5: Faster startup and shutdown, lots of code removal, EDID 1.4, Secure RPC authentication, GLX and DRI passthrough support for Xephyr, smarter autoconfiguration, pervasive and coherent XACE security framework, easier building of GL code, numerous input-related bugfixes.
  

 

http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/Releases/7.4

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=xorg_74_final&num=1

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Microsoft encourages us to think of Linux, when we think of it as all, as an also-ran operating systems for nerds. The last thing Microsoft wants us to think about is that there are some spaces where Microsoft is a distant number two and Linux is on top. Too bad Microsoft, there are several such places. One such is HPC (High Performance Computing).

 

At HPC's very highest end, supercomputers, Linux rules. The first computer to bust the petaflop, 1.0 quadrillion calculations per second, barrier? IBM's Roadrunner supercomputer running Linux. Out of the Top 500 supercomputers in the world, over 80% of them are running Linux.

 

Συνέχεια του άρθρου

[gtroza]

Where Windows is #2 to Linux

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

 

http://blogs.computerworld.com/where_windows_is_2_to_linux

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[firewalker]

http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.5.10.php

[hasodikis]

δεν ήξερα που να το βάλλω.... απότε το βάζω εδώ...

έχω κατουρηθεί από τα γέλια

 

από http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Linux_Users_Anonymous

 

 

Linux Users Anonymous

From Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia.

 

 

 

[edit] Overview

 

Linux Users Anonymous, also known as Linux Anonymous, or LUA, or Keifer Sutherland, is a support group primarily for addicts of Linux-based operating systems, although the group has been known to accept BSD junkies, AIX drones, Amiga OS retrophiles, Solaris whores, PIX thumpers and BeOS diehards.

 

The early days of LUA started with a 1960's government cover-up of computer scientists driven mad by the MULTICS operating system project. This institution for mentally insane geeks dwindled to a handful of core crackpots as the MULTICS fever slowly drove the CS's to suicide. But out of the ashes arrose Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy who while patients themselves developed a cure they called UNIX. Unfortunately their cure soon proved to be deadlier and more addictive than the original MULTICS and soon the outbreak reached the general public and spread from there. In 1991 a new and more powerful form of UNIX was created by Linus Torvalds who boiled down UNIX in a pot with water, gently rocking the boiling mixture to form large, hard crystals of almost pure geekdom that he called Linux. Over the next 15 years Linux spread among the geeks quickly infecting the uber's and then spreading to everyone else. Now LUA groups can be found everywhere fighting the growing pandemic.

 

LUA's often work in conjunction with corporate sponsors that funnel money out of Redmond Washington to help the poor suffering souls. International groups are sometimes less fortunate and often find themselves selling off the less popular members into slavery to raise funds so that they may help other more popular fellow memberfree themselves from Linux addiction.

 

In recent years great strides have been made in brewing some top notch coffee at the meetings and most meetings encourage a BYOB policy with more elicit medication use reaching high approval in the bathroom stalls.

[edit] The Warning Signs of Linux Addiction

 

Addicition to Linux is an insideous and dangerous disease that plagues the fringes of our society, threatening more and more every day to spill over the fringe and flood the common man with free stuff. But the vigilant and upright citizens of the world can rest assured the warning signs are easy to spot once you know what to look for.

 

Linux addicts exhibit many strange habits for working professional such as:

 

* Owning computers for ten or more years with out complaining of the computer "slowing down"!

* Expanding IT operations at staggering rates with little to no capital or credit!

* Carrying around hand labelled "live CD's" that they claim aren't pirated programs!

* Developing top notch software even though you know for a fact they never paid for development software!

* Long hair!

* Never complaining about unwanted desktop popups!

* Smiling for no apparent reason when the casual conversation turns to high cost of MS licensing!

* Claiming to have access to photoshop quality photo tools that are free!

* Scruffy beards and 'very' casual clothes!

* Snickering when network engineers talk about IIS and Exchange problems!

* Instead of cowering in the corner on "black Tuesday", they look happy and relaxed!

 

It is also important to be on the lookout for the following Linux parapheniela:

 

* Large CD and DVD libraries of "distros" that go by the names, "Slackware, Morphix, Fedora, Gentoo, Musix, Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE, Mepis, Slax, CentOS, Vector, Xandros, Linspire, DSL, Knoppix..."

* Tubular objects that are partially filled with water and smell like dirty, wet socks.

* Computers that never freeze and never seem to need restarting.

* An excessive amount of computer hardware that obviously couldn't support any modern OS.

* Stuffed penguins.

* Well paying, laid back, IT jobs.

 

Some addicts become violently attached to their Linux paraphenelia!

Some addicts become violently attached to their Linux paraphenelia!

 

Linux addicts are often in serious denial about their addiction to Linux, and will violently claim nothing is wrong with any of the aforementioned "Warning Signs". So please be cautious approaching them about their addiction, and if possible find a sponsor from one of the LUA's before confronting the Linux addict.

[edit] The Program

 

The central tenant of the LUA philosophy is that the individual in league with a mentor/sponsor and a power higher than themselves, is able to free themselves of the overburdening freedom and flexiblity of the GNU/Linux OS's and their ilk. New members are expected to find a person who has over a year clean off of free software to be their sponsor and help guide them through the personally (although not technically) trying 12 step program. During the first year of the program the GNU/Linux user is encouraged to attend at least one meeting every night until he has gone through the 12 steps. Afterwards attendance is deemed, "As needed." Many users find the meetings a good place for free coffee and some seriously needy putang.

 

The twelve affirmations of the Linux Anonymous 12-step approach are:

[edit] Step 1

 

I acknowledge that I am powerless before the multithreaded, time sharing, virtually systemized, kick ass macrokernel that is GNU/Linux (or insert other oddball OS here).

[edit] Step 2

 

I believe that only Bill Gates (or possibly Steve Jobs) can restore my sanity.

[edit] Step 3

 

I understand and am willing to pay for the salvation of a commercial OS.

[edit] Step 4

 

I have confirmed "$pwd" returns "/" and "$ls -a -R > personal_inventory.txt" is safely stored in my latest tape backup.

[edit] Step 5

 

I have personally emailed Microsoft (or possibly Apple) and cc'd myself and my sponsor of my error in using a free operating system.

[edit] Step 6

 

I am prepared for a proprietary and popular OS to cleanse me of this GNU/FSF taint.

[edit] Step 7

 

I have paid at the counter of retail for a licensed copy of salvation from Bill Gates (or possibly Steve Jobs) and burned my last free ISO.

[edit] Step 8

 

I have created a distribution list in Microsoft Outlook of everyone I ever convinced to try "free software".

[edit] Step 9

 

I have VB.net scripted the distribution list to repeatedly send until I have contacted everyone I have corrupted, the script also makes assumptions about possible changes in email addresses and modifies the send list to accommidate predictable variations on the original adresses, exempting the people who's ISP's are threatening to press charges on me for spamming.

[edit] Step 10

 

I have paid for a program which continually monitors all of my files so that I may assess any needed updates or file corruption, I have also paid for anti-spyware, I have paid for anti-virus software, I have paid for an office suite, I have paid for a personal finance program, I have also paid for a handful of these things they call PC games, and I have "leased" hundreds, if not thousands, of songs from iTunes, so that I may continually assess my new salvation and be able to compare in retrospect where I strayed in the past and avoid such deviation in the future promptly with a fresh format and install, or possibly pay for a badly needed product upgrade, or a new product entirely, but only when these things I paid for don't work.

[edit] Step 11

 

I will stare at the frozen desktop in meditation with Microsoft (or possibly Apple), and I will accept the offline popups as the will of Microsoft (or possibly Apple), and I pray for the power of Microsoft (or possibly Apple) to be able to follow the will of Microsoft (or possibly Apple) now and in the future.

[edit] Step 12

 

Now that I have witnessed my own salvation through paying for an OS, I will attempt to convince other people of the salvation they shall receive if they were to drop their free software ways and accept the salvation of Microsoft (or possibly Apple).

 

*The Apple operating system shall only be used as an intermediary step towards a fully proprietary OS, which crashes, slows down, and fills up your hard drive in a manner befitting such an investment. However one must learn from an Apple OS and must spend time realising there are no programs worth using and must be ready to accept "random crashes for no reason".

Be vigilant against the dangers of Linux addiction!

Be vigilant against the dangers of Linux addiction!

[edit] NOTE

 

Please don't tell the penguins, they have already threatened the freedom of the Grues claiming "Open source belongs to the poor, No!! Said Gentoo belongs to Lu Bu, No! Said Ubantu IT BELONGS TO EVERYONE!" Many rejected those answers and instead chose something..different...they chose a rip off...they chose...Vista!

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Hasodikis

 

 

-----Προστέθηκε 26/9/2008 στις 12 : 18 : 50-----

 

 

δείτε και αυτό...

scroll προς τα κάτω είναι μεγάλο

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Uncyclux

 

μου πονάει το σαγόνι μου από τα γέλια

Hasodikis

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