Ubuntu Pentest Edition is a gnome based linux designed as a complete system which can also be used for penetration testing. Ubuntu Pentest Edition has a big repository of software (Ubuntu repositories) and high customization possibilities. The system is made in a way that you can configure it to suite your needs.
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Ghosting The Machine
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This is a short but potentially extremely handy guide to ghosting one Linux box to another (or simply making a full backup of a desktop/server). Credit goes to 'topdog' for this.
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Linuxables: Your First Steps with Linux vi
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We continue our look into the Linux text editor by highlighting one of the powerhouses of the bunch - vi.
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Security expert releases Ubuntu Linux distro for malware analysis
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A security consultant has released a Ubuntu-based Linux distribution specifically designed to help analyze and re-engineer malware. Lenny Zeltser on Thursday released REMnux on Sourceforge and it has already been downloaded nearly 2,000 times.
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Learn Linux, 101: Create partitions and filesystems
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Learn how to create partitions on a disk drive and how to format them for use on a Linux® system as swap or data space. You can use the material in this article to study for the LPI 101 exam for Linux system administrator certification, or just to learn about partitions and Linux filesystems for your own use.
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Five tips to make your bash life easier
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A number of tricks and shortcuts can save you time and keystrokes when you’re using bash to knock out various chores. Here are five handy tips to get you started.
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Three Performance Monitoring Apps
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Most Linux users are familiar with the top command. Top shows you a list of processes on your system and provides a ton of useful information such as their CPU usage and owner. Unfortunately, this isn’t always enough data and many people don’t know where to turn next.
Read more »Change to your Favorite directories on the bash shell by scripting ‘cd’.
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I’m sick and tired of having to remember and ‘cd’ long paths. I decided to create my own console based Favorites-script which makes use of a definitions file which is easy to change. “cd /home/petur/Documents/school/2010/fall/chemistry” becomes “cdf chemistry” and “cd /var/log” becomes “cdf log”
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Announcing Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System 1.7.1
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The Tahoe-LAFS team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 1.7.1 of Tahoe-LAFS, an extremely reliable distributed storage system. Tahoe-LAFS is the first distributed storage system which offers "provider-independent security" -- meaning that not even the operators of your storage servers can read or alter your data without your consent.
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GnuPG 2.0.16 released
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The GNU Privacy Guard is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data, create digital signatures, help authenticating using Secure Shell and to provide a framework for public key cryptography. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the OpenPGP and S/MIME standards.
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I2P 0.8 release
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I2P is a free software anonymizing network, offering a simple layer that identity-sensitive applications can use to securely communicate. The new release's highlights: router console with GeoIP display, automatically generated Base32 destination names, plugin system, translation for router console, less CPU and memory usage, network improvements for scalability.
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Vodafone demonstrates commitment to open source innovation
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Vodafone Group will make it's location based services software -- Wayfinder, open source. The code will be made available on Github. The aim is to offer other organisations the opportunity to use a code base which has been developed over the past decade so that they can build new and innovative navigation products which widen choice for consumers.
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Mozilla increases bounty for security bug info to $3,000
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The reward for finding eligible vulnerabilities will rise from $500, with the program extended to cover more Mozilla software
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 Beta 2 Benchmarks Against Ubuntu, CentOS, openSUSE
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Now that the second beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 was released last week, we took the workstation build and have benchmarked it against the latest releases of Ubuntu, CentOS, and openSUSE.
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Firebird Embedded in comparison to SQL Server Compact Edition 4
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Scott Guthrie recently posted article about New Embedded Database Support with ASP.NET. This made me think about other options, Firebird in particular, and advantages and disadvantages. What I’m going to do is to introduce Firebird Embedded here and compare with features Scott wrote.
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