Source: Gartner
By awarding software contracts to six Chinese vendors, including Red Flag, the Beijing municipal government builds momentum for Chinese vendors and the Linux operating system while rejecting Microsoft.
Source: Linux Security
The following text describes a security hole in the encrypted loop device for linux. Because of it, an attacker is able to modify the content of the encrypted device without being detected. This text proposes to fix the hole by authenticating the device.
Kerneltrap has recently interviewed Dave Jones who currently lives in London, employed by SuSE as a Linux kernel hacker. In the past six months since he graduated from the University of Glamorgan he has gotten involved in an impressive range of kernel related projects, including Powertweak, x86info, OProfile and the Kernel Janitors Project. Additionally, he maintains a -dj patch for the 2.5 development kernel, helping to sync it with the stable 2.4 kernel as well as offering increased stability.
Source: Vnunet
L33tdawg: This is precisely what we talked about the other day in Making Linux Harder Than It Is, when there really is no reason why learning to use this open source system should be such a daunting task.
NVOPTION is a grapich front-end to change NVIDIA options under linux in X mode. Twinview ,TV out and standard options can be configured. The link to the download and documentation is here.
L33tdawg: Could this be the start of the Windows Display Properties Panel for Linux?
Source: 8Wire.com
Perhaps one reason that Linux hasn't become more prominent in the corporate world has been its lack of sophisticated host-based intrusion detection systems (IDSs). There are many Linux IDSs in use that are network-based, meaning that they attempt to detect intrusions before they occur. Now, there is at least one host-based Linux IDS, called SNARE (System iNtrusion Analysis and Reporting Environment).
Source: News Forge
This is an interesting obeservation actually, cause I certainly must agree that Linux is certainly not as 'hard' as everyone makes it out to be. Sure if you're talking about installing Linux back in the day of perhaps RedHat 5.0 or something, yeah it wasn't so easy (it wasn't impossible though), but with say RedHat 7.2, the installation process is almost as simple as a Windows NT or XP installation. Eitherways, here's an excerpt from the article.
Source: Vnunet
I would say that Linux is already a target. It just doesn't happen to be nearly as vulnerable a host as Windows.
"Of course we will see more and more attacks on Windows, but Linux will be a target because its use is becoming more widespread," said Raimond Genes, European president for antivirus at Trend Micro. "It is a stable OS, but it's not a secure OS."
