Anonymous hackers have released their own operating system they're calling "Anonymous-OS". According to The Hacker News, the distribution is based off Ubuntu 11.10 and includes some pre-installed applications including:
- ParolaPass Password Generator
- Anonymous HOIC
- Ddosim
- Pyloris
- Slowloris
- TorsHammer
Internet freedom actiivist group the Electronic Frontier Foundation has welcomed a move allowing users to delete log activity for GNOME applications in the latest update to the Ubuntu operating system.
The new feature, available in the current beta of Ubuntu 12.04, will allow users to disable activity logging for some Linux applications, potentially preventing thieves with physical access to a computer from pilfering user files.
Linux skills are in growing demand in today's IT hiring landscape, and there are many ways to bolster those skills both online and off.
Whereas many such offerings target IT professionals, however, a new program from the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is aimed at students and others who are relatively new to the technology.
The first beta of Ubuntu 12.04, codenamed Precise Pangolin, was made available today. The 12.04 release, which is the next major version of the popular Linux distribution, will officially launch in April. It's a long-term support release, which means that it will receive updates and support for five years.
Linus Torvalds was not a happy man. He’s been using openSUSE Linux as his desktop Linux, he explained in a Google+ posting, “because it worked so well at install-time on the MacBook Air, but I have to say, I’ve had enough. There is no way in hell I can honestly suggest that to anybody else any more.” What enraged Mr. Linux? OpenSUSE’s demand that you use the root password to make what Torvalds thinks are trivial desktop setting changes.
The first model of the Raspberry Pi Foundation's low-cost Linux computer will likely be available for purchase later this month. The organization announced today that manufacturing on the first batch is set to complete on February 20.
Linux vendors are rushing to patch a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel that can be exploited by local attackers to gain root access on the system.
The vulnerability, which is identified as CVE-2012-0056, was discovered by Jüri Aedla and is caused by a failure of the Linux kernel to properly restrict access to the "/proc/<pid>/mem" file.
The Unity development team at Canonical has published a development build aimed at testers of version 5.0 of its custom desktop interface for the Ubuntu Linux distribution. Users running the current Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" alpha can install the preview release by manually adding the Unity PPA, which is hosted on the Unity Team's Launchpad.net page.
The Linux Mint team has announced the availability of a release candidate for Linux Mint 12 KDE, the version of the Linux Mint distribution with the latest version of KDE, 4.7.4. Like Linux Mint 12, it is based on Ubuntu 11.10. This is the first Linux Mint KDE release which, like other recent Mint releases, has hybrid ISO images; this enables the simple creation of a bootable USB stick, which can behave just like a live CD or DVD, using just the dd command. A tutorial is provided to explain how to install Linux Mint via USB.
The Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet has a locked bootloader, which has prevented hackers from figuring out how to replace the version of Android that comes on the tablet with custom software such as CyanogenMod. But that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to run an alternate operating system on the NOOK Tablet.
