Open-source Payroll Application Launched
News The payroll system runs on Debian Linux by default, but can also run on other Linux distributions including Red Hat and SuSE Linux. Pinner said the company chose Debian as the default distribution because it is stable and has a good update...
[November 25, 2004, 14:50]
Researcher: Debian Cryptography May Be Flawed
News A security researcher has warned that cryptographic keys generated in the last year and a half using Debian OpenSSL may be invalid. According to Moore, a bug in a Debian OpenSSL package was created in 2006 by the removal of a piece of code, which...
[May 16, 2008, 10:34]
Various Thoughts And Experiences With Linux
Blog I didn't even try Debian on the S2110. Since the new release of Mandriva (2009.0) and Ubuntu (8.10), and the upcoming releases of Debian (lenny), Fedora (10) and MEPIS (8.0), I've been loading (or trying to load) each of these on each of the...
[November 13, 2008, 13:38]
Its Been Quite Some Time....and Now Debbie Has Some Sisters
Blog Comment I installed the default ext3 on the Debian systems. The designated server "Debbie" on the Celeron has been running for over 2 or 3 months (I can't remember when I really started running it) and her two sisters, both P3's acting as clients, just got...
[July 25, 2007, 3:09]
Unix/Linux Shops -- Beware Of Kerberos Hole
News Symantec reports that some versions of Conectiva, Red Hat, Gentoo, Mandrake, SuSE, and Debian Linux shipped with vulnerable versions of Kerberos, as did NetBSD, OpenBSD, and IBM's pSeries Parallel System Support Programs, as well as multiple...
[November 11, 2002, 16:54]
Net Worm Hobbles Linux Servers
News When trying to infect Red Hat 6.2 systems, the worm will use the RPC.statd and wu-FTP flaws, according to an analysis completed by Daniel Martin, a Debian Linux developer. Most default installations are insecure," he stressed.
[January 18, 2001, 7:55]
Samba Flaw Opens Up Root Access Attack
News A Debian GNU/Linux Security notice, DSA-262-1, says that the threats include: As the Samba team clearly states, Samba is configured by default to accept connections from any host. Apple's advisory on this problem says, "Samba is not enabled by...
[April 7, 2003, 9:49]
A Challenge To All Linux Users In The World
Blog Comment I'm very loathe to give up my Little Debby Linux box though (currently running on the same Celeron) so I think I will resurrect my old 1.8 GHz P4 and do an Debian 4.0 install on that one so I can keep learning more about Debian even as I'm testing...
[June 16, 2007, 7:20]
Debian Released Without Security Update Feature
News New installations [of Debian 3.1 from CD and DVD] will not get security updates by default," said Debian developer Colin Watson in an e-mail warning. A configuration mistake in the new Debian Linux distribution has forced a fix less than 24 hours...
[June 8, 2005, 9:50]
Delayed Debian Distribution Is Released
News Debian 4.0 supports Gnome as the default desktop environment, but KDE and Xfce can also be installed through alternative CD images. The fourth version of Debian, the Linux distribution, has been released — four months later than planned.
[April 12, 2007, 13:24]
Mitigating The Fallout
Talkback While there is certainly a non-vanishing risk of some phisher posing as openid.sun.com, we have taken certain steps to make sure that our users are reasonably protected: the weak Debian-generated certificate has been replaced and revoked, and most...
[August 14, 2008, 15:33]
Ubuntu 7.10 Gibbon Swings On The Asus Eee
Blog Comment Conversely, I know hardcore Linuxites who don't like it because they think it hides too much away, there are problems they think important that don't get fixed, and they have arguments over some of the decisions made during its evolution (had a...
[November 9, 2007, 8:59]
Linux Users Urged To Patch File-sharing Flaw
News Several Linux editions -- including Debian, Gentoo, and SuSE -- released patches for the problem. Apple Computer noted in an advisory that Samba is not enabled by default with Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server, but the company plans to issue a patch for...
[March 18, 2003, 8:21]
F-Secure Gives Linux An Antivirus Injection
News It runs on default configurations of Red Hat 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, SUSE Linux 9.0 and SuSE Linux 8.2, as well as other versions including Debian 3.0r1 with Samba updates. F-Secure launched antivirus software for Linux on Thursday that is...
[March 25, 2004, 15:50]
US State Embraces Open Standards
News The City of Munich is moving 14,000 desktops to Debian Linux, and Vienna is in the process of migrating some of its desktop users from Windows software. It is the default file format for OpenOffice 2.0, which is currently in beta.
[September 1, 2005, 10:40]
Ubuntu Improves Live Offering
News The latest version of Ubuntu, the free Linux distribution based on Debian, includes a fully customisable Live CD and an automated installation tool. Although the first public release of Ubuntu was only six months ago, it's already seen by some as a...
[April 11, 2005, 16:15]
Foresight Linux
Blog It is Debian Linux, with the Gnome desktop, and its major "claim to fame" seems to be the "Conary" software management system, which looks like an improved RPM system. After installation I was surprised to see that it had gotten the default...
[August 29, 2008, 10:24]
Administer Windows From Linux With Rdesktop
News Rdesktop is widely available and is included in packages for most major distributions, such as Mandrake, Red Hat, and Debian. By default, rdesktop will use TCP port 3389 to connect to a Windows machine.
[November 26, 2002, 10:38]
Ubuntu Gets More Virtualisation-friendly
News Ubuntu has risen to popularity alongside better established versions of Linux such as Red Hat, Suse Linux, Mandriva and Debian. We have to be very conservative in what we enable Ubuntu to do by default because of this patchwork of patents," he said.
[April 16, 2007, 15:36]
