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While reading an interesting Blog I discovered a new treasure: TRESOR, in short TRESOR is a secure implementation of AES which is resistant against cold boot attacks and other attacks on main memory. Contrary to popular assumption, DRAMs used in most modern computers retain their contents for seconds to minutes after power is lost, even at operating temperatures and even if removed from a motherboard. Although DRAMs become less reliable when they are not refreshed, they are not immediately erased, and their contents persist sufficiently for malicious (or forensic) acquisition of usable full-system memory images. This is a cold based attack.

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.

Chris Mason, the Oracle engineer who's the lead developer of the Btrfs, just finished a session at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit about his promising and feature-rich file-system.

So, you just had to go overboard with your PPA’s, didn’t you? The lure of bleeding-edge software was just to great for you to be able to stick with the tried-and-true software that was already available in your existing repositories.

Linux Mint Debian Update Pack 4 is finally considered stable and is now available for all LMDE users. The update replaces GNOME 2 with GNOME Shell (although it's possible to "freeze" LMDE to GNOME 2) and it also brings Cinnamon and Mate desktop, so LMDE users can choose from three GNOME-based "shells".

LibreOffice OnLine will however be a real competitor to Microsoft Office 365, the web version of Microsoft Office. We will have more features than Microsoft Office 365 and we will not be sending informations to whatever special agency, even when the solution is hosted inside the user's organization, which is unfortunately the case with Office 365.

What does server consolidation mean to you and how does it relate to virtualization. Find out what it can mean for your business.

For quite a while I've been collecting links, tweets and other stuff to illustrate another problem that's been affecting me (and other people, surely). I thought it was finally time to write the post and bring this up because, honestly, I feel excluded too. It's the booze. You can't go anywhere, do anything or talk to anyone in the tech industry these days without a drink in your hand. If you try to fake it with a soda water you may as well give up trying to have insightful conversations after the first hour, because everyone else is wasted.

As you probably already know, Qt 5 Alpha has been released for your consumption by Nokia labs. As we move closer to mid-life for KDE 4.8, we can see KDE 4.9 looming around the corner. With a 4.9 release by the KDE team and an alpha quality build of Qt 5 just a download away, one thing is certain. KDE 5.0 is coming...

The kernel may be the core of a Linux system, but neither users nor applications deal with the kernel directly. Instead, almost all interactions with the kernel are moderated through the C library, which is charged with providing a standards-compliant interface to the kernel's functionality. There are a number of C library implementations available, but, outside of the embedded sphere, most Linux systems use the GNU C library, often just called "glibc." The development project behind glibc has a long and interesting history which took a new turn with the dissolution of its steering committee on March 26.

Where other VoIP services and clients send data in the clear, Jitsi sets itself apart by making use of ZRTP to set up secure communication with SRTP, Secure Real-time Transport Protocol. Version 1.0 was released on April 3. This article shows how to install it on Debian, Linux Mint, Ubuntu or any other distribution derived from Debian.

In the battle of Citrix CloudStack vs OpenStack, Umbee Ltd. is choosing sides. Indeed, Umbee Ltd. claims to have launched the world’s first cloud hosting service based on CloudStack 3.0, an open source cloud alternative to OpenStack. Here are details.

This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (Ubuntu 11.10) that use GlusterFS. Each storage server will be a mirror of the other storage server, and files will be replicated automatically across both storage servers. The client system (Ubuntu 11.10 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.

Andrew Wyatt has announced the availability of Fuduntu 2012.2 on 2nd April, 2012.No major updates are there but some minor changes have been made. It uses Linux kernel 3.2.13, Chromium 17, Mozilla Firefox 11, Thunderbird 11, Pidgin 2.10.2, LibreOffice 3.5.1.

Tired of waiting for Raspberry Pi? With delay after delay, and no fixed release date in sight, maybe it’s time to look for an alternative...

Red Hat sets a new revenue milestone as development on upstream kernel and rival distributions continue.

Barry Kauler, the father of Puppy Linux, proudly announced earlier today, April 5th, the immediate availability for download of the Puppy Linux 5.3 Wary and Racy operating systems.

I am happy to present you the interview with Riccardo Capecchi. You may or may not know his name, but you are more than likely know his blog - Linuxaria.

In This tutorial I will explain to you how to change network card speed and duplex settings in ubuntu 12.04. On Ubuntu 12.04 you can use two program commad line based that is mii-tool and ethtool package. Both allows ubuntu user to modify/change and view the negotiated speed of network interface card. it is useful for forcing specific Ethernet speed and duplex settings

Linux developers and management people have little in common. Yet the latter would find plenty of which to approve in the latest kernel report - it is a dream come true as far as work practices go.