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Stories · 6

  1. An Early Taste of OpenSUSE

    Linux · Suse · · posted by timothy · from the open-suse-wide dept. · 233 comments
    Anonymous Coward writes "Finally the site OpenSUSE.org is up and includes some beta downloads. The stable version can be expected around September 2005. Looks like there are some differences between Novell's SUSE and Redhat's Fedora mentioned in the FAQ."

  2. New Releases for Debian and SUSE

    Linux · Debian · · posted by timothy · from the don't-move-along-something-to-see dept. · 223 comments
    linuxbeta writes "With the recent SUSE LINUX 9.3 Live DVD ISO released, we get a sneak peek. (screenshots) of this much anticipated OS update. Cool updates in 9.3 includes Firefox 1.0, OpenOffice.org 2.0, Gimp 2.2, Beagle. Xen, VoIP client, and more." And while Debian's Sarge isn't here yet (give Branden Robinson a chance to find his plush new office!), wrochal points out that the fifth update to Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 ("Woody" ) has arrived. 3.0 (r5) "mainly adds security updates to the stable release, along with a few corrections to serious problems." Also, four packages were removed, three for license violations.

  3. NX - A Revolution In Network Computing?

    Tech · Kde · · posted by michael · from the one-network-to-bind-them-all dept. · 404 comments
    Anonymous Coward writes "Judging from this interview, it looks like KDE developers have found a new toy to add to their desktop's networking capabilities. They claim to be able to cram a fullscreen KDE session -- KMail for mailing, Konqueror for file management, Mozilla for web browsing and OpenOffice for word processing -- into a 40 KBit/sec modem connection without losing responsiveness for the user experience. At aKademy, the 9 day KDE Community World Summit, a group of core developers started to work on NX/FreeNX integration to help facilitate the "re-invention of the KDE desktop environment" for KDE4. Knoppix-3.6 is the first Linux distribution to ship an integrated FreeNX server (created by Fabian Franz) with the NoMachine NX Client."

  4. NEAT Comet Crossing: Internet Telescopes

    Science · Space · · posted by michael · from the they-report-you-decide dept. · 92 comments
    An anonymous reader writes "During a large solar coronal mass ejection, this week's NEAT Comet crossing, gave some spectacular film footage. While no comet with such a small nucleus has ever survived that kind of close solar approach (one-fourth of Mercury's orbit) without fragmenting, this one did-- and is now outward bound on its 370 century roundtrip. These new comet discoveries have filled the log files of the now 70 big robotic telescope projects, most of which are being connected to the internet. The largest ($3 M) research-class one for public use--the Hawaiian Faulkes Project--will see first light in 45 days."

  5. Assembler Compiler In Bash

    Humor · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the bass-ackwards dept. · 126 comments
    sTeF writes "This guy is crazy, he wrote an assembler totally in Bash. After all those awk/sed/ps httpservers this is the next crazy step. what's next? a virtual machine in Bash? anyhow here's the url to the source."

  6. Encrypted Filesystems With Linux?

    Ask · Encryption · · posted by Cliff · from the how-about-2048-bit-keys-on-your-data dept. · 185 comments
    PhracturedBlue asks: "There are lots of ways to encrypt a filesystem (via loopback, ppdd, CFS or CryptFS), but all of these options appear to have their faults, be it poor performance, lack of features, or not being actively maintained. So are there any other options out there, that provie quality FS encryption with reasonable performance? So, are there any other viable options, besides the ones I've found? Are there any actual benchmarks of actual performance for the viable options above (I guess the viable ones are loopback, CFS, TCFS, and PPDD)? How about systems using the AES-winner Rijndael (I know Loopback Encryption and possibly TCFS and PPDD can use Twofish, but isn't Rijndeal supposed to be one of the faster encryption methods?). I've seen the recent Slashdot article, and it didn't really address the above questions."

    "First let me say that I know little to nothing about cryptography, and I wouldn't know the first thing about good vs. bad options, so any statements I make here are based on what I've read and may be completely erroneous. What I'm looking for a way to secure my (Debian) Linux laptop, since physical security is an issue (I can't keep it locked up in my house all the time). So I went out looking for a way of encrypting my filesystem.

    The easiest method appears to be to install Loopback Encryption, but from what I can figure out this is a bad solution because (a) its very poor performance, and (b) there is no way to do key authentication. Another option is CFS (a quick howto can be found here), but this is also reported to have poor performance (even with blowfish, or the NFS related TCFS) and it also appears to be abandoned. (Okay TCFS may not be abandoned, but it hasn't been updated for over a year). People seem to rave about CryptFS, but this appears to be a prototype developed for a research paper that has gone no further. Of the last real options that I've uncovered PPDD (which is a device-driver rather than a filesystem) seems like it may be the most promising (though it doesn't seem to have been updated since January, and I can find no indication about testing it with the 2.4 beta kernels)."