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Report: DHS Requested Gas Pipeline Companies to Let Attackers Lurk Inside Networks

  • Security Week; By Steve Ragan (Posted by caitlyn on May 9, 2012 11:11 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
DHS Warns of Cyber Attack Targeting Natural Gas Industry: Companies Requested Not To Take Action to Remove Attackers, Says Source

According to reports, which were confirmed Friday by ICS-CERT, an active Phishing campaign is responsible for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issuing three warnings since the end of March that the natural gas industry has been under ongoing cyber attack. However, it’s the advice that the DHS is giving that should raise some red flags.

FBI: We need wiretap-ready Web sites - now

  • CNET; By Declan McCullagh (Posted by caitlyn on May 9, 2012 8:49 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
CNET learns the FBI is quietly pushing its plan to force surveillance backdoors on social networks, VoIP, and Web e-mail providers, and that the bureau is asking Internet companies not to oppose a law making those backdoors mandatory.

ROSA Marathon 2012 Release Candidate

ROSA company has finished formation of a package base for the ROSA Marathon 2012 operating system.

We are glad to announce the Release Candidate (RC) of the system which will be subjected to a series of final tests, but will not undergo any significant changes.

The New Desktop Paradigm: Blame the Success of Linux on the Desktop

The new Windows 8 Metro desktop, the latest incarnation of Mac OSX, Android, Ubuntu's Unity desktop and GNOME 3, love them or hate them, all came about because of the success of Linux on the desktop. No, you didn't misread that and, no, I'm not talking about market share.

An OS in the Public Interest - a Mandriva Linux Foundation?

Last week, I received, in CC:, an email from a Mandriva Linux developer. This email was entitled “A foundation for Mandriva Linux *NOW* or Mandriva Linux to *DIE*?” That suggested to me that maybe Mandriva was not going very well. This, of course, hurted me. At the same time it leads to the interesting question of a Foundation for a project like Mandriva Linux.

Gaël Duval is the founder of Linux Mandrake, which later became Mandrake Linux and, after a merger with Conectiva, Mandriva Linux.

Mandriva's Alive

A post has emerged from the Mandriva camp today and it even gives a dab of information on the future of Mandriva. They have put out a call to interested parties to speak out and let their thoughts be known. Jean-Manuel Croset, Mandriva COO, said today that they'd like to get "the opinion and ideas of the community, as well as to feel how strong you are." He says that the desktop distribution has been their foundational product and that its community is a necessary element of that.

Slackel current KDE 4.8.2 installation and Live images are released!

A collection of four KDE iso images are immediately available to our users, including 32-bit and 64-bit installation images as well as 32-bit and 64-bit live images that can be burned to a DVD or used with a USB drive.

Slackel current KDE 4.8.2 includes a new wallpaper for kde desktop.

Salix MATÉ 13.37beta1 Released

Here is the first beta release of our new Salix edition, using the MATE Desktop Environment. For anyone not familiar with MATE, it's a GNOME2 fork, that continues development of the GNOME 2.x branch. MATE uses the traditional desktop metaphor that was abandoned for newer GNOME 3.x releases. There was a lot of work involved by the MATE developers with forking MATE and most issues that appeared due to forking have been ironed out. The desktop experience provided by the MATE Desktop should now be on par with that of GNOME 2.32.x, with the added advantage that MATE is actually actively developed.

Solving Display Problems With Some NVIDIA Chipsets After Installing Slackware 13.37 or SalixOS 13.37

Slackware 13.37 and SalixOS 13.37, like most current Linux distributions, use the Open Source nouveau driver by default if an NVIDIA graphics chipset is detected. Nouveau works well with most NVIDIA graphics cards and chipsets but by no means all of them. In some cases the hardware detection works as it should but misconfigures X.org. In other cases, particularly older, legacy chipsets and very new chipsets, the hardware simply is unsupported.

Taking an in-depth look at PapugLinux 11.1a (DWW #450)

  • DistroWatch Weekly; By Caitlyn Martin, Robert Storey, Jesse Smith and Ladislav Bodnar (Posted by caitlyn on Apr 2, 2012 5:43 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Gentoo, GNOME, Linux
I've always been interested in small and lightweight Linux distributions. One of the nice things about following DistroWatch regularly is that I see release announcements for distros that I may have missed, ones which may have a very different take on how to fill a given niche. PapugLinux is such a distro. It's a live CD designed to work well on legacy hardware but which also can be installed and updated.

Special Report: First Look at GNOME 4 - the Future of Portability

  • DistroWatch; By Robert Storey (Posted by caitlyn on Apr 1, 2012 3:34 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Humor; Groups: GNOME, Linux
Almost exactly one year ago, GNOME 3 was released with much fanfare. But to the surprise of many, it was not warmly welcomed. Indeed, it has polarized the Linux community, mainly because it was such a radical departure from the familiar and popular GNOME 2. Although some praised the new interface, it seemed that many more geeks were not impressed, leading to a rather bitter war of words on various online community forums.

Yet another Linux story

This article is aimed at Linux newbies, enthusiasts and developers who are yet to take the plunge.

A big task was pending since a very long time in my todo lists. It was installing and trying out Linux. Having heard about many features and praises about Linux and programming on the LAMP stack from a few of my friends and colleagues, I decided to give it a try myself.

Congress withdraws SOPA, PIPA anti-piracy measures

  • MSNBC; By Jasmin Melvin (Posted by caitlyn on Jan 21, 2012 12:30 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The controversial legislation will be withheld for 'wider agreement' . U.S. lawmakers stopped anti-piracy legislation in its tracks on Friday, delivering a stunning win for Internet companies that staged an unprecedented online protest this week to kill the previously fast-moving bills.

Missing the Point of WordPress Entirely

  • ReadWrite Enterprise; By Joe Brockmeier (Posted by caitlyn on Jan 14, 2012 4:23 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Community
A post by Kevinjohn Gallagher on "no longer recommending WordPress" to his clients has gotten a bit of traction lately. While there's legitimate criticism to be leveled at WordPress, Gallagher's isn't (for the most part) it. If you're approaching WordPress with the expectation that it's the be-all and end-all of content management systems (CMSes) you're going to be sorely disappointed. And frankly, I hope WordPress never tries to fit the ridiculous list of requirements that Gallagher tries to saddle it with.

Android/Linux Not a Security Concern, Windows Definitely and Demonstrably Remains #1 Target

Why the weakest link is Microsoft Windows (which therefore should not be used for storing sensitive information), whereas Android is just the target of a lot of FUD this month

Mark Shuttleworth: The Whole Patent System Is A Sham

Mark Shuttleworth, the charismatic founder of Ubuntu, slammed the patent system as broken. He also said that Microsoft's biggest mistake was to think that they could use patents against competition and wasted most of a decade.

Taking a long look at Salix OS 13.37 (DistroWatch Weekly #423)

  • DistroWatch; By Caitlyn Martin, Jesse Smith and Ladislav Bodnar (Posted by caitlyn on Sep 21, 2011 3:26 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux, Slackware
Just over a year ago I wrote the first review of Salix OS for Distrowatch. I found that the desktop-oriented Slackware-based distro met the goals of the developers: maintaining all the positive attributes of the parent distribution while offering additional tools and functionality to provide a friendlier system for users who don't want to get under the hood of their operating system.

Adobe: 64-bit Flash Player Later This Year

  • O'Reilly Broadcast; By Caitlyn Martin (Posted by caitlyn on Jun 9, 2011 4:35 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
I'm pleased to report that the lack of a native 64-bit Flash Player does appear to be temporary. The note from Mr. Offerman reads, in part: "I can confirm that Adobe will make 64-bit support in Flash Player "Square" available in a shipping release of Flash Player later this year. "

On Virtualization and The Cloud: The Most Ridiculous Article I've Read in a Very Long Time

Ken Hess, wrote a piece that ridicules and derides anyone who doesn't virtualize literally all, as in every last one, of their servers. No, I'm not exaggerating. Here is a particularly striking part of this gem of technical writing. It's the summary for the entire article, no less: "You'll need to keep some physical systems around for those workloads that can't go virtual. And, be sure to keep a horse and buggy around when that whole automobile thing doesn't work out too."

One Year Later: Adobe Abandons 64-bit Linux Again

  • O'Reilly Broadcast; By Caitlyn Martin (Posted by caitlyn on Jun 7, 2011 8:44 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
...once again there are known security vulnerabilities in the now eight month old beta and no patches are available. In addition, the community forum page for discussing Flash Player "Square" has been deleted from the Adobe Labs website. If Adobe is continuing development on a 64-bit version of Flash Player they are not sharing any information with the public at this time. For the time being Adobe has effectively abandoned 64-bit Linux.

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