Linux security may seem daunting, but there are a host of best practices to simplify the maze. Recently, Steve Grubb of Red Hat Inc. outlined some important security principles, including minimizing admin access, the increasing sophistication of SELinux and the importance of auditing systems.
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Top 5 Awesome Linux Distro Upgrades Coming Out in Second Half of 2008
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To stay politically correct, I’ll state the real title of the post, which should be something like ‘The top 5 New Awesome New Versions of GNU/Linux Distributions Coming out in late 2008.
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GPL Project Watch List for Week of 07/18
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The GPL v3 Watch List is intended to give you a snapshot of the GPLv3/LGPLv3 adoption for July 11th through Juky 18th, 2008.
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My Emacs Story - Diving Into…
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"...What’s really amazing is the wise Emacs internal architecture that allows those myriads of extensions to work together. Eclipse tries hard to achieve this, and the concept of plugin extension points is really similar to “hooks” in Emacs, but… But it’s almost impossible to write a useful Eclipse extension with just a few lines of Java code—too many low-level overhead.
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Google's Bigtable
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Big Table is an ongoing research project to create a structured database that will operate in a distributed environment. It is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers.
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Using Perltidy To Beautify Ugly Perl Scripts
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Using the perltidy program to create readable Perl scripts from working, but messy and convoluted, existing ones.
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Measuring Profits: Microsoft vs. Red Hat
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Microsoft’s stock dropped sharply today because the company’s latest quarterly profits didn’t quite meet Wall Street’s expectations. Meanwhile, The VAR Guy and other open source bloggers continue to hype Red Hat and Linux as growing threats to Microsoft. But before you suggest open source will destroy Microsoft’s profits, take a look at these stagging financial figures.
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Tough love: Linux needs more haters
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I’ve been spending far too much time reading a blog recently. Normally I dislike reading blogs, or as my friend from the IT News site “the Register” Andrew Orlowski calls them; “Wikki W**kers”. They are usually rather vacuous and the pressure to write something, anything, to attract attention means there is very little worth reading...However, the LinuxHaters blog is rather different
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Dell is serious about Ubuntu: Launches first consumer Linux PCs
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Dell today flipped the switched and is now officially offering consumer desktop and notebook PCs with Ubuntu 8.04 pre-installed. Two notebooks and one desktop join two desktop systems in Dell’s open-source product portfolio.
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Canonical, Openbravo Set to Demo ERP for Ubuntu Linux
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Ubuntu Linux isn’t just for desktop users anymore. That will be the key message when Canonical and Openbravo demonstrate open source ERP software on Ubuntu servers at Linuxworld in August, The VAR Guy has learned. Here’s the scoop, directly from Openbravo CEO Manel Sarasa (pictured).
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The chage command
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chage changes the number of days between password changes and the date of the last password change. This information is used by the system to determine when a user must change her password. The chage command is restricted to the root user, except for the -l option, which may be used by an unprivileged user to determine when her password or account is due to expire.
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ODF More Widely Adopted; Microsoft Wants to Destroy It, Kindly
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Further analysis of Microsoft's entrances into ODF territories and stuffing of another panel; SAP and Adobe adopt OpenDocument format.
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Open Standards for Cloud Computing
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We are in an exciting time for technology and cloud computing. While web applications are not yet replacing desktop applications on a large scale, web applications that are capable of competing with their desktop counterparts are appearing on an almost daily basis.
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Can Linux Replace Windows - Maybe!
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I loaded Ubuntu Linux on my test laptop a couple of weeks ago more or less on a lark, thinking I would just see for myself what the current state of the Linux world is today. When I saw how easily it loaded (and how quickly!), and how well it worked, I decided to try loading it on my main laptop to see how that would go... After two weeks of loading a variety of different Linux distributions ...
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This must have been the briefest test run a Linux distribution had on my box. Frankly, when I noticed GRUB on the CD it already was out of the window. For good measure I continued until the live desktop, only to confirm the massive suspicion I had. This is yet another remaster posing as something new. The culprit: PC/OS.
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