OpenVAS stands for Open Vulnerability Assessment System and is a complete tool for network security scanning including a graphical user front-end. I is used to detect security problems in remote systems and applications. The OpenVAS development team consists of various interested parties from academia and commercial entities as well as individuals.
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Hey Apple, What About iLinux?
Mac OS X 10.5.6 is out today. Are you excited? According to all the Apple-oriented buzz, it's a much-anticipated release. It has lots of fixes and some cool enhancements but do you want to know what would sell me an Apple product? (And it isn't a hip new release of their current proprietary OS.) iLinux.
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A Readers Digest History of Linux
I reckon we should go into a brief, “Readers Digest” version of the history of Linux. Linux as we know it was developed in 1991 by Linux Torvalds based upon the GNU code written by, or at least announced by, Richard Stallman in 1983. Just knowing that dispels the myth that Linux is based upon Unix as GNU stands for “Gnu is Not Unix.” This often leads to the use of the term GNU/LINUX.
Read more »7 Free Open Source Video Editors For Linux
In Windows, you have the Windows Movie Maker that makes video editing a breeze. In Linux, while there is no default or inbuilt video editor applications, there are plenty of open source video editing tools that one can consider for their video project.
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Care for some WINE?
Ah the taste of victory. It is sweet. :) Especially if it is an immense victory over Microsoft. I know, I should probably get a life and stop boasting about my small over-comings of Microsoft’s huge shortcomings. :D I should also stop drinking too much tea. I think it’s melting my brain. :D No? Fine then, I think I will pester you all with this post on the WINdows Emulator.
Read more »Amarok2.0 Part Two: Continued failure
I tried reviewing Amarok2 before but it won't work on the 64bit machine but since those reviews that were not masturbating about technological details but that were written by people wanting to use an audio player drew a bad picture I thought I should have a look myself. So I went and installed a current Ubuntu release in a VirtualBox and installed the official package.
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2 of CNET's Best Cell Phones of 2008 Run on Linux
Two days ago, CNET came up with its list of what it considered as the best cell phones of this year. Out of the six, two of them run on Linux.
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Open source - the ultimate globalization tool
I’ve been hearing a lot from open source software vendors about internationalization and more specifically, localization of their software by, logically, local community members and contributors that take the code and run with it in Japanese, Russian, Spanish and a variety of other languages in places all over the globe.
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How to make your video or music player play on another sound card in Fedora (and Ubuntu)
The latest iterations of popular Linux distros Fedora and Ubuntu include PulseAudio. Make sure you learn about it!
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Adobe learns lessons of open-source Flex
Adobe Systems is learning the challenges and complexities of taking its software open source
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Return of the Xvid: check your outputs!
I once wrote an article on Xvid 1.1.3, and the speed boost one could get by enabling assembly-optimized code. Well, this is a case of my being hoisted by my own petard - however, I must admit that several things were against me.
In short, Murphy's Law struck again.
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The annoyances of proprietary Firefox extensions
As a regular browser of the Firefox Add-ons site, I'm troubled by the apparent proliferation of proprietary extensions in the last year. Maybe I've simply exhausted the free-licensed extensions that interest me, but recently every interesting-looking extension seems to be a proprietary one -- especially in the recommended list.
Read more »Simple Desktop File Sharing with Giver
With Giver, you can share files between desktops on your network with absolutely no configuration necessary. Other Giver clients are automatically discovered using Avahi.
Read more »Microsoft & Paid Lobbyists Attack Open Source in European Interoperability Framework
Microsoft, along with ACT, CompTIA and the BSA, are working to change Europe's policy on standards
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Interview with Warren Woodford - Founder of Mepis
In this interview we talk with Warren. In specific, we talk about:
* The origins of SimplyMEPIS
* Ubuntu’s role in the larger community
* Differences among distros from a developer perspective
* Corporate use of free versus for-fee Linux
* The Linux desktop and the future of client-side Linux
* Future directions of note: IPv6 and DNSSEC
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