David Mosberger, developer of the initial GCC port to IA-64 and lead kernel architect for Linux on IA-64, tells us why you should care about Intel's new 64-bit chip. David joined an Internet research group within Hewlett Packard in 1997, and a few years later began to contribute to the Itanium port, where he is now lead kernel architect.
The free Web Performance Tools is a set of applications that allow stress-testing of a Web server, a Web site, and/or a Web application. The two current applications are stress and record. Stress is a high-performance, simple, threaded HTTP engine that is capable of simulating hundreds or even thousands of HTTP clients, using a highly configurable set of directives in a human-readable and easily modified configuration file.
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They were the darlings of the Linux boom: Red Hat, VA Linux, LinuxCare, Caldera and TurboLinux.
The first companies to see a real market for the free operating system, they helped sell the world on Linux, luxuriated in the warm embrace of a giddy financial community and then -- one by one -- they watched as their stock values dropped, their employee rosters thinned and their prospects dimmed.
Source: ZDNET U.K.
If you find you've been cracked use these old-school Unix tools to help track down the perpetrators
You have determined that your network has been breached. There are two standard approaches on what to do next:
Close the holes as fast as possible and put in safeguards to protect against future attacks.
Identify the perpetrator and prepare for prosecution.
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A group of technology firms would be setting up a Linux software services shop in the City of London financial district. The Linux centre will be located at walking distance from the City's square mile.
This article provides an introduction to the netfilter/iptables system, how it works, its advantages, installing and configuring, and how to use it to configure firewalls on Linux systems to filter IP packets. The netfilter/iptables is the IP packet filtering system that is integrated with the latest 2.4.x versions of the Linux kernel.
Have you ever wondered what you can do to reduce the spam in your inbox? This article discusses and compares several broad approaches to the elimination of unwanted e-mail while introducing and testing some popular tools that follow these approaches. You will learn about ways that computer code can help eliminate unsolicited commercial e-mail, viruses, trojans, and worms, as well as frauds perpetrated electronically and other undesired and troublesome e-mail.
This article guides you through setting up and using DB2 7.2 with the Command Line Processor. You'll also learn to use the graphical Control Center, which helps you explore and control your databases, and the graphical Command Center, which helps you generate SQL queries. Other topics covered include Java runtime environment setup, useful Linux utility functions, and bash profile customization.
Source: Vnunet
As open source software becomes increasingly popular it is being targeted by virus writers and proving to be at least as vulnerable as Microsoft.
The virus-monitoring laboratory of Network Associates' Antivirus Emergency Response Team (Avert) has logged over 170 viruses and Trojans for Linux, as well as an additional 30 Unix shell scripts.
Of these, six or seven are active in the field at any one time - currently Ramen, Lion, BoxPoison, OSF, Scalper and its modification, Slapper.
Robert Love, author of the kernel preemption patch, has written an informative article for KernelTrap on debugging the Linux kernel. He says, "Recently, a lot of work has gone into the 2.5 development kernel to facilitate better debugging. Starting with the 2.5.39 kernel, an infrastructure is in place for tracking down a wide range of atomicity/sleep bugs."
Read the full article at KernelTrap.
