If you want to do a thorough system security audit on a Linux machine what do you use? Cobble together a few of the pre-installed tools? Search through the numerous locations for a tool that might give you enough information to determine if your system is safe? Or, do you open up a terminal window and use the Lynis security auditing tool?
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Install Quantum GIS in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
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Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a cross-platform Geographic Information System (GIS). It offers support for vector and raster formats, including spatially enabled tables in PostgreSQL using PostGIS, common GIS vector formats such as Shapefiles, and geo-referenced rasters (TIFF, PNG, and GEOTIFF). Many plugins are available to dynamically add new functionality.
Read more »Tweaking Linux Library Settings Within Readline
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Readline is the library that handles your Linux command-line input (and input for some other applications). The various customizable options for it are set either system-wide in /etc/inputrc or per-user in ~/.inputrc.
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What’s Likeable About Likewise Open for Ubuntu
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Traditionally, configuring Ubuntu servers to integrate with Microsoft Active Directory was not a lot of fun. It wasn't exactly difficult, but it involved editing lots of PAM and Kerberos configuration files, and often some perilous trial-and-error. But these days, there's a better way - for many situations, at least - and it's called Likewise. Here's how it works, and why I think it's so gre
Read more »Moonlight 3.0 preview offered for rich Internet apps on Linux and Unix
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Moonlight 3.0, which puts Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet plug-in software on Linux and Unix platforms, is now being offered in an alpha release, according to Web pages from the Mono project, which has jurisdiction over Moonlight. The release features infrastructural capabilities designed to move Moonlight closer to the capabilities of Silverlight 3, said Novell, which sponsors Mono.
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Synchrorep - A one click folders synchronization
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Synchorep is an open source software to synchronize two directories, that mean reporting all modifications of one to the other and vice versa. At the end of synchronization, both directories will be strictly the same.
Read more »Get Xen VM IP address, without login to guest
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I have looked around the way to find the IP address for Xen guest without login to guest. There were couple of posts and Xen FAQ which list some methods. The following code is very similar to Xen FAQ post in Network section.
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Cleaning Up The Linux Graphics Driver Stack
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Yesterday Luc Verhaegen gave a talk at FOSDEM on reverse engineering a motherboard BIOS, but today we finally have X@FOSDEM for the last time.
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Layoffs Won't Stop Project Wonderland
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Hats off to the Project Wonderland developers. Despite Oracle laying them off, the team will continue work on Project Wonderland. According to the project blog the core group behind the 3D virtual world toolkit believes in the open source project enough to keep working on it without backing from Oracle.
Read more »Ubuntu Development: Quickly, Lernid, and Ground Control
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I've been kind of harping on the development situation in Ubuntu for some time now. The Lucid (10.04) development cycle has some really interesting ... er ... developments with regard to ... uh ... the development landscape.
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Linux fdupes: Get Rid (Delete) Of Double Duplicate Files In Directory
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How do I find duplicate files in a given set of directories and delete them using a shell script or a command line options? How do I get rid of double duplicates files stored in ~/foo and /u2/foo directory?
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Virtio: An I/O virtualization framework for Linux
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The Linux kernel supports a variety of virtualization schemes, and that's likely to grow as virtualization advances and new schemes are discovered (for example, lguest). But with all these virtualization schemes running on top of Linux, how do they exploit the underlying kernel for I/O virtualization?
Read more »Increase your internet speed with Namebench
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NameBench is a program that searches for the fastest DNS in your area. After the program is finished searching and comparing between DNS it will give you the results including the fastest and nearest DNS in your area.
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Call For Community Input: Linux Professional Institute "Job Task Analysis"
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The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) issued a call for volunteers to assist in the development of its world leading Linux certification program (http://www.lpi.org). Volunteers are sought for participation in a Job Task Analysis (JTA) survey for the organization's new specialty exam LPI-304 (High Availability and Virtualization).
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Speed your internet up with NameBench
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After the program is finished searching and comparing between DNS it will give you the results including the fastest and nearest DNS in your area.
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