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Considering Patrick is broke (Why isn't this news?) he couldn't afford it:

I've been mulling over exactly how to tell you all this, and I guess this is as good a place as any. The store has been ripping me off horribly, and I'm very nearly broke. I have no evidence that they've ever done anything with donations besides line their own pockets. I've not been paid any money by them in two years. That was upon the 14.2 release (and followed another long period of time with no income). The 14.2 release generated nearly $100K in revenue. The store gave me $15K, and later said that I was "overpaid".

When I agreed to set up the store, it was structured as a company where they owned 60%, and my wife and I owned 40%. I had not yet escaped California and would have quickly gone broke there with a house underwater had I not taken the deal. And 60% seemed fair, since the idea was that the company would be providing health insurance, paying for the production of the goods, and handling shipping and related customer service. And when my daughter was born and needed surgery and continuing medical attention I could hardly jeopardize our insurance in the days before the ACA. I was between a rock and a hard place like many residents of the US. Since then, the store has ceased to provide any benefits, and shouldn't even be getting a 50/50 split in my opinion, much less looting the coffers for 81+% (anything they want to spend money on is an expense, apparently, while any expenses I have to support the actual project come out of the peanuts they toss me). I only found out about how bad it really was last year when I finally managed to get some numbers out of them. I thought the sales were just that bad, and was really rather depressed about it. Another side note - the ownership of the 60% portion of the store changed hands behind my back. Nobody thought they needed to tell me about this. At that point I'd say things got considerably worse for me.

This is sad news -- I guess he should have retained 51% of the store. :-(

[citation needed]

Slackware is LinuxQuestion's 2016 Desktop Distribution of the Year

Slackware is LinuxQuestion's 2017 Server Distribution of the Year

I think this speaks clearly about the distro's popularity.

[citation needed]

Slackware is LinuxQuestion's 2016 Desktop Distribution of the Year

Slackware is LinuxQuestion's 2017 Server Distribution of the Year

I think this speaks clearly about the distro's popularity.

I didn't find a 2008 survey, but I did find a 2010 survey. D'you mind doing some homework?
https://www.linuxquestions.org...

I do not know why this is funny, but since we are doing meaningless polls, Slackware was rated the best server in LQ for 2018:

https://www.linuxquestions.org...

From: https://www.linuxquestions.org...

Desktop Distribution of the Year - Ubuntu (18.17%)
Server Distribution of the Year - Slackware (22.40%)
Live Distribution of the Year - Knoppix (18.31%)
Lightweight Distribution of the Year - Puppy Linux (29.75%)
Database of the Year - MariaDB (42.22%)
Browser of the Year - Firefox (57.84%)
Desktop Environment of the Year - Plasma Desktop (KDE) (27.83%)
Window Manager of the Year - Openbox (24.22%)
Audio Media Player Application of the Year - VLC (31.13%)
Digital Audio Workstation of the Year - Ardour (42.86%)
Video Media Player Application of the Year - VLC (68.01%)
Video Authoring Application of the Year - KDEnlive (
Network Security Application of the Year - Wireshark (33.33%)
Host Security Application of the Year - SELinux (35.71%)
Network Monitoring Application of the Year - Nagios Core (32.73%)
IDE of the Year - Geany (15.98%)
Text Editor of the Year - vim (28.32%)
File Manager of the Year - Dolphin (25.24%)
Open Source Game of the Year - 0 A.D. (17.31%)
Programming Language of the Year - Python (30.00%)
Backup Application of the Year - rsync (41.30%)
Log Management Tool of the Year - Logwatch (36.96%)
X Terminal Emulator of the Year - Konsole (22.01%)
Browser Privacy Solution of the Year - uBlock Origin (28.13%)
Privacy Solution of the Year - Tor Browser Bundle (37.21%)
Open Source File Sync Application of the Year - Nextcloud (36.92%)
IRC Client of the Year - Hexchat (33.02%)
Universal Packaging Format of the Year - Snap (38.67%)
Single Board Computer of the Year - Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (64.18%)
Virtualization Application of the Year - VirtualBox (64.53%)
Container of the Year - Docker (67.14%)
Orchestrator of the Year - Kubernetes (62.07%)
Linux/Open Source Podcast of the Year - Linux Action Show (16.00%)
Secure Messaging Application of the Year - Telegram/Signal (Tie - 38.46%)
Video Messaging Application of the Year - Skype (54.76%)
Vector Graphics Editor of the Year - Inkscape (68.97%)
Linux Desktop Vendor of the Year - System76 (63.49%)
Email Client of the Year - Thunderbird (63.45%)

As of today, the verbatim search "poetterix" already has hundreds of results in Google Search, some dating back to June 2013.

Eh, LinuxQuestions.org is the de facto Slackware support forum, it just doesn't bear Slackware in the name. I mean, strictly speaking it's a multi-distro forum, but look at the number of posts in each subforum here.

It would be like asking bbs.archlinux.org or www.ubuntuforums.org what their favorite distro is.

They might be opposed to systemd on a moral level but, they may not be able to avoid it on a technical level. As systemd absorbs more and more things, and more things start to depend on systemd, it's a simple problem of manpower: Unless your distro is run by a multi-billion dollar company that has the resources to undo the damage caused by systemd, you may have no choice but to adopt it.

Exactly, they will avoid it until avoiding entails more effort than including it.
There is an old interview on LQ that talks about this: http://www.linuxquestions.org/....

From Patrick himself...

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/lilo-developer-stepping-down-ending-the-project-4175552274/#post5413967

"As long as it works, we'll include it."

I've always preferred LILO over Grub. It's simplicity has always been great.

But it hasn't. Looking at a couple of potentially-relevant aspects:

The standard for copyrightability of facts is "particular selection, coordination, or arrangement" of facts -- it's why maps are copyrightable but data dumps like phone books aren't -- phone books don't really select, they take pretty much all of them, coordination doesn't really apply, and arrangement is a simple mechanical process that nobody would regard as identifiable as any particular author's work.

The standard for copyright of other useful works has been

If a pictorial, graphic or sculptural work is a useful article, it is copyrighted only if its aesthetic features are separable from its utilitarian features. A useful article is an article having an intrinsic utilitarian function that is not merely to portray the appearance of the article or to convey information. They must be separable from the functional aspect to be copyrighted.

The problem there is, clean-room reimplementation is legal. Dalvik is a clean-room reimplementation of the Java API. Headers are an integral part of an API implementation; you can't make them work, at all, without headers using matching names. Not even Microsoft has dared try anything so pathetic as Oracle's argument: Wine is legal, and it implements the Win32 API, names included. Samba is legal, and it implements the CIFS API, names included. Maybe this would be a good starting point for more.

Please explain to me what the advantage of systemd is again?

This took 30 seconds to google:

systemd:

• Fast boot time, mainly achieved due to starting services in parallell. This can also be achieved with SystemV init, but has to be done manually, while it is a product of dependency handling on systemd.
• Automatic dependency handling.
• Monitoring of started services with the ability to restart crashed services.
• Modules written in compiled languages, probably hard to debug.
• Tries to replace several system services, from the actual init over hardware recognition and session management to the logging service, and many more. Not the Unix way.

SystemV:

• Boot time depends on the admins optimizations.
• Due to its static dependency handling relies on a knowledgeable admin. Decide for yourself if you count that as advantage or not.
• Needs often some hacks to monitor services, services can easily escape the monitoring.
• Written as Shell scripts, so easy to debug and alter if necessary.
• Minimal approach, doesn't try to be the one super-service running the system.

Please stop using arguably the most useless of marketing slogans. Every desktop environment which has been around long enough has won an award of some kind. (Yes, even Gnome.)

Your comment is great.
Here, have an Award.

Please stop using arguably the most useless of marketing slogans. Every desktop environment which has been around long enough has won an award of some kind. (Yes, even Gnome.)

systemd is the one of the worst thing Ive seen on Linux but it did get me back to my old friend Slackware after many years.

Would you consider Slackware a good alternative even if it weren't an old friend of yours? I mean, do you recommend it? Won't it switch to systemd in turn?

Thus spoke Patrick Volkerding in a July 2012 interview:

With udev being phased out in favor of systemd performing those tasks we'll have to make the decision at some point between whether we want to try to maintain udev ourselves, have systemd replace just udev's functions, or if we want the whole kit and caboodle.

All popular package managers, including APT, RPM and the FreeBSD Ports Collection, suffer from the problem of destructive upgrades. When you perform an upgrade -- whether for a single application or your entire operating system -- the package manager will overwrite the files that are currently on your system with newer versions. As long as packages are always perfectly backward-compatible, this is not a problem, but in the real world, packages are anything but perfectly backward-compatible.

(from http://archive09.linux.com/feature/155922)

We have all been bitten by this. It is not that prevalent on servers (what I use Linux for), but desktop distros definately suffers from this.

also:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/dependency-hell-233892/

http://fixunix.com/suse/265243-dependency-hell.html

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=289520&goto=nextnewest

http://www.brighthub.com/computing/linux/articles/52282.aspx

Dependency hell is real. Package managers help mitigate the problem locally, but software repositories are distro and version specific. Once you step outside of the official repository you risk stepping into dependency hell, as many of the above experienced. I fully concede that it *shoudn't* be a problem if every piece of software author did what they were supposed to do. It is the OSs job to provide a service and guidance so that authors do the right thing. Linux is not quite there yet, unfortunately. That's why you see the typical advice to install from the "official" distro and version specific repository. But that model is flawed.

I will counter your googling for office crashes, not with facts, but with my own googling of libre office crashes! That's a sure fire way to get people on-side!

Libre Office crashing all over the place:
http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/952/writer-35-keeps-crashing/
http://askubuntu.com/questions/41329/how-can-i-stop-libreoffice-from-randomly-crashing
http://www.sevenforums.com/software/163405-open-office-3-libre-crashes.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/data-crash-and-recovery-with-libre-office-937038/
http://en.libreofficeforum.org/node/1259
http://en.libreofficeforum.org/node/2908
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12071436

Libre Office crashing on startup:
http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/3511/libreoffice-crashes-on-opening/
http://windowssecrets.com/forums/showthread.php/151139-Open-Office-and-Libre-Office-crash-on-start-up

Yes and no.
Of course I did try the CDs in the car with the engine turned off.
After a bit of research I found this:
I guess I rather was a victim of copyright wars and/or attempts to install DRM on CDs.
So it was after all an attempt to sell CDs with DRM, one way or another, although it seems that most companies have dropped that attempt shortly after.
Still, their loss, not mine.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/dr_agon-365450/which-mua-for-linux-35190/

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/steam-on-slackware-4175436118/

Leakid v. Blogger

Leakid v. Grub

Leakid v. Weird TV

Here's a Linuxquestions thread outlining multi-disk backup strategies.

The gist of the discussion is to use DAR.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-security-4/linux-tools-to-wipe-out-a-hard-drive-760062//

Many to choose from, let the IT defartment fix the mess.

You are behind the times, and should really be firing your complaints at Nvidia.

Discussions on graphics card performance show both suck in different areas.

They never fail! This is a problem because you never find out errors in your GL code until after you've shipped the product.

Or new drivers are released which break things like in Rage.

The upshot is that people incorrectly assume that ATI drivers suck. They don't. Nvidia drivers are the ones that suck!

Perhaps you missed the recent article stating AMD/ATI video drivers are incompatible with system-wide ASLR. 'Always On' DEP combined with 'Always On' ASLR are effective exploit mitigations. However, most people don't know about 'Always On' ASLR since Microsoft had to hide it from EMET with an 'EnableUnsafeSettings' registry key — because AMD/ATI video drivers will cause a BSOD on boot if 'Always On' ASLR is enabled.

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# 1. Tor Discussion Forums (two hidden services)

We need an official Tor discussion forum.

I did not see this issue mentioned in Roger's *latest* notes post, so for now, mature adults should visit and post at one or both of these unofficial tor discussion forums, these tinyurls will take you to:

** HackBB:
http://www.tinyurl.com/hackbbonion

** Onion Forum 2.0
http://www.tinyurl.com/onionforum2

Each tinyurl link will take you to a hidden service discussion forum. Tor is required to visit these links, even though they appear to be on the open web, they will lead you to .onion sites.

I know the Tor developers can do better, but how many years are we to wait?

Caution: some topics may be disturbing. You should be eighteen years or older. I recommend you disable images in your browser when viewing these two forums[1] and only enabling them if you are posting a message, but still be careful! Disable javascript and cookies, too.

If you prefer to visit the hidden services directly, bypassing the tinyurl service:

HackBB: (directly)
http://clsvtzwzdgzkjda7.onion/

Onion Forum 2.0: (directly)
http://65bgvta7yos3sce5.onion/

The tinyurl links are provided as a simple means of memorizing the hidden services via a link shortening service (tinyurl.com).

[1]: Because any content can be posted! Think 4chan, for example. onionforum2 does not appear to be heavily moderated so be aware and take precautions.

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# 2. DNSCrypt for Linux, Windows, Mac (from opendns.com)

"In the same way the SSL turns HTTP web traffic into HTTPS encrypted Web traffic, DNSCrypt turns regular DNS traffic into encrypted DNS traffic that is secure from eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks. It does not require any changes to domain names or how they work, it simply provides a method for securely encrypting communication between our customers and our DNS servers in our data centers. We know that claims alone do not work in the security world, however, so we have opened up the source to our DNSCrypt code base and it is available on GitHub"

https://www.opendns.com/technology/dnscrypt/

- Download the right package for your Linux distribution:
https://blog.opendns.com/2012/02/16/tales-from-the-dnscrypt-linux-rising/

https://github.com/opendns/dnscrypt-proxy/blob/master/README.markdown
https://github.com/opendns
https://blog.opendns.com/2012/05/08/dnscrypt-for-windows-has-arrived/
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/05/dnscrypt-encrypts-your-dns-traffic-because-theres-always-someone-out-to-get-you/
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/DNSCrypt-a-tool-to-encrypt-all-DNS-traffic-1392283.html
http://blog.opendns.com/2012/02/06/dnscrypt-hackers-wanted/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/dnscrypt-930439/

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# 1. Tor Discussion Forums (two hidden services)

We need an official Tor discussion forum.

I did not see this issue mentioned in Roger's *latest* notes post, so for now, mature adults should visit and post at one or both of these unofficial tor discussion forums, these tinyurls will take you to:

** HackBB:
http://www.tinyurl.com/hackbbonion

** Onion Forum 2.0
http://www.tinyurl.com/onionforum2

Each tinyurl link will take you to a hidden service discussion forum. Tor is required to visit these links, even though they appear to be on the open web, they will lead you to .onion sites.

I know the Tor developers can do better, but how many years are we to wait?

Caution: some topics may be disturbing. You should be eighteen years or older. I recommend you disable images in your browser when viewing these two forums[1] and only enabling them if you are posting a message, but still be careful! Disable javascript and cookies, too.

If you prefer to visit the hidden services directly, bypassing the tinyurl service:

HackBB: (directly)
http://clsvtzwzdgzkjda7.onion/

Onion Forum 2.0: (directly)
http://65bgvta7yos3sce5.onion/

The tinyurl links are provided as a simple means of memorizing the hidden services via a link shortening service (tinyurl.com).

[1]: Because any content can be posted! Think 4chan, for example. onionforum2 does not appear to be heavily moderated so be aware and take precautions.

###

# 2. DNSCrypt for Linux, Windows, Mac (from opendns.com)

"In the same way the SSL turns HTTP web traffic into HTTPS encrypted Web traffic, DNSCrypt turns regular DNS traffic into encrypted DNS traffic that is secure from eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks. It does not require any changes to domain names or how they work, it simply provides a method for securely encrypting communication between our customers and our DNS servers in our data centers. We know that claims alone do not work in the security world, however, so we have opened up the source to our DNSCrypt code base and it is available on GitHub"

https://www.opendns.com/technology/dnscrypt/

- Download the right package for your Linux distribution:
https://blog.opendns.com/2012/02/16/tales-from-the-dnscrypt-linux-rising/

https://github.com/opendns/dnscrypt-proxy/blob/master/README.markdown
https://github.com/opendns
https://blog.opendns.com/2012/05/08/dnscrypt-for-windows-has-arrived/
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/05/dnscrypt-encrypts-your-dns-traffic-because-theres-always-someone-out-to-get-you/
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/DNSCrypt-a-tool-to-encrypt-all-DNS-traffic-1392283.html
http://blog.opendns.com/2012/02/06/dnscrypt-hackers-wanted/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/dnscrypt-930439/

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# 1. Tor Discussion Forums (two hidden services)

We need an official Tor discussion forum.

I did not see this issue mentioned in Roger's *latest* notes post, so for now, mature adults should visit and post at one or both of these unofficial tor discussion forums, these tinyurls will take you to:

** HackBB:
http://www.tinyurl.com/hackbbonion

** Onion Forum 2.0
http://www.tinyurl.com/onionforum2

Each tinyurl link will take you to a hidden service discussion forum. Tor is required to visit these links, even though they appear to be on the open web, they will lead you to .onion sites.

I know the Tor developers can do better, but how many years are we to wait?

Caution: some topics may be disturbing. You should be eighteen years or older. I recommend you disable images in your browser when viewing these two forums[1] and only enabling them if you are posting a message, but still be careful! Disable javascript and cookies, too.

If you prefer to visit the hidden services directly, bypassing the tinyurl service:

HackBB: (directly)
http://clsvtzwzdgzkjda7.onion/

Onion Forum 2.0: (directly)
http://65bgvta7yos3sce5.onion/

The tinyurl links are provided as a simple means of memorizing the hidden services via a link shortening service (tinyurl.com).

[1]: Because any content can be posted! Think 4chan, for example. onionforum2 does not appear to be heavily moderated so be aware and take precautions.

###

# 2. DNSCrypt for Linux, Windows, Mac (from opendns.com)

"In the same way the SSL turns HTTP web traffic into HTTPS encrypted Web traffic, DNSCrypt turns regular DNS traffic into encrypted DNS traffic that is secure from eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks. It does not require any changes to domain names or how they work, it simply provides a method for securely encrypting communication between our customers and our DNS servers in our data centers. We know that claims alone do not work in the security world, however, so we have opened up the source to our DNSCrypt code base and it is available on GitHub"

https://www.opendns.com/technology/dnscrypt/

- Download the right package for your Linux distribution:
https://blog.opendns.com/2012/02/16/tales-from-the-dnscrypt-linux-rising/

https://github.com/opendns/dnscrypt-proxy/blob/master/README.markdown
https://github.com/opendns
https://blog.opendns.com/2012/05/08/dnscrypt-for-windows-has-arrived/
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/05/dnscrypt-encrypts-your-dns-traffic-because-theres-always-someone-out-to-get-you/
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/DNSCrypt-a-tool-to-encrypt-all-DNS-traffic-1392283.html
http://blog.opendns.com/2012/02/06/dnscrypt-hackers-wanted/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/dnscrypt-930439/

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# In this post:
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# 1. Tor Discussion Forums (two hidden services)
# 2. DNSCrypt - for Linux, Mac, and Windows (from opendns)

# 1. Tor Discussion Forums (two hidden services)

We need an official Tor discussion forum.

I did not see this issue mentioned in Roger's *latest* notes post, so for now, mature adults should visit and post at one or both of these unofficial tor discussion forums, these tinyurls will take you to:

** HackBB:
http://www.tinyurl.com/hackbbonion

** Onion Forum 2.0
http://www.tinyurl.com/onionforum2

Each tinyurl link will take you to a hidden service discussion forum. Tor is required to visit these links, even though they appear to be on the open web, they will lead you to .onion sites.

I know the Tor developers can do better, but how many years are we to wait?

Caution: some topics may be disturbing. You should be eighteen years or older. I recommend you disable images in your browser when viewing these two forums[1] and only enabling them if you are posting a message, but still be careful! Disable javascript and cookies, too.

If you prefer to visit the hidden services directly, bypassing the tinyurl service:

HackBB: (directly)
http://clsvtzwzdgzkjda7.onion/

Onion Forum 2.0: (directly)
http://65bgvta7yos3sce5.onion/

The tinyurl links are provided as a simple means of memorizing the hidden services via a link shortening service (tinyurl.com).

[1]: Because any content can be posted! Think 4chan, for example. onionforum2 does not appear to be heavily moderated so be aware and take precautions.

###

# 2. DNSCrypt for Linux, Windows, Mac (from opendns.com)

"In the same way the SSL turns HTTP web traffic into HTTPS encrypted Web traffic, DNSCrypt turns regular DNS traffic into encrypted DNS traffic that is secure from eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks. It does not require any changes to domain names or how they work, it simply provides a method for securely encrypting communication between our customers and our DNS servers in our data centers. We know that claims alone do not work in the security world, however, so we have opened up the source to our DNSCrypt code base and it is available on GitHub"

https://www.opendns.com/technology/dnscrypt/

- Download the right package for your Linux distribution:
https://blog.opendns.com/2012/02/16/tales-from-the-dnscrypt-linux-rising/

https://github.com/opendns/dnscrypt-proxy/blob/master/README.markdown
https://github.com/opendns
https://blog.opendns.com/2012/05/08/dnscrypt-for-windows-has-arrived/
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/05/dnscrypt-encrypts-your-dns-traffic-because-theres-always-someone-out-to-get-you/
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/DNSCrypt-a-tool-to-encrypt-all-DNS-traffic-1392283.html
http://blog.opendns.com/2012/02/06/dnscrypt-hackers-wanted/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/dnscrypt-930439/

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# In this post:
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# 1. Tor Discussion Forums (two hidden services)
# 2. DNSCrypt - for Linux, Mac, and Windows (from opendns)

# 1. Tor Discussion Forums (two hidden services)

We need an official Tor discussion forum.

I did not see this issue mentioned in Roger's *latest* notes post, so for now, mature adults should visit and post at one or both of these unofficial tor discussion forums, these tinyurls will take you to:

** HackBB:
http://www.tinyurl.com/hackbbonion

** Onion Forum 2.0
http://www.tinyurl.com/onionforum2

Each tinyurl link will take you to a hidden service discussion forum. Tor is required to visit these links, even though they appear to be on the open web, they will lead you to .onion sites.

I know the Tor developers can do better, but how many years are we to wait?

Caution: some topics may be disturbing. You should be eighteen years or older. I recommend you disable images in your browser when viewing these two forums[1] and only enabling them if you are posting a message, but still be careful! Disable javascript and cookies, too.

If you prefer to visit the hidden services directly, bypassing the tinyurl service:

HackBB: (directly)
http://clsvtzwzdgzkjda7.onion/

Onion Forum 2.0: (directly)
http://65bgvta7yos3sce5.onion/

The tinyurl links are provided as a simple means of memorizing the hidden services via a link shortening service (tinyurl.com).

[1]: Because any content can be posted! Think 4chan, for example. onionforum2 does not appear to be heavily moderated so be aware and take precautions.

###

# 2. DNSCrypt for Linux, Windows, Mac (from opendns.com)

"In the same way the SSL turns HTTP web traffic into HTTPS encrypted Web traffic, DNSCrypt turns regular DNS traffic into encrypted DNS traffic that is secure from eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks. It does not require any changes to domain names or how they work, it simply provides a method for securely encrypting communication between our customers and our DNS servers in our data centers. We know that claims alone do not work in the security world, however, so we have opened up the source to our DNSCrypt code base and it is available on GitHub"

https://www.opendns.com/technology/dnscrypt/

- Download the right package for your Linux distribution:
https://blog.opendns.com/2012/02/16/tales-from-the-dnscrypt-linux-rising/

https://github.com/opendns/dnscrypt-proxy/blob/master/README.markdown
https://github.com/opendns
https://blog.opendns.com/2012/05/08/dnscrypt-for-windows-has-arrived/
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/05/dnscrypt-encrypts-your-dns-traffic-because-theres-always-someone-out-to-get-you/
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/DNSCrypt-a-tool-to-encrypt-all-DNS-traffic-1392283.html
http://blog.opendns.com/2012/02/06/dnscrypt-hackers-wanted/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/dnscrypt-930439/

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# In this post:
#
# 1. Tor Discussion Forums (two hidden services)
# 2. DNSCrypt - for Linux, Mac, and Windows (from opendns)

# 1. Tor Discussion Forums (two hidden services)

We need an official Tor discussion forum.

I did not see this issue mentioned in Roger's *latest* notes post, so for now, mature adults should visit and post at one or both of these unofficial tor discussion forums, these tinyurls will take you to:

** HackBB:
http://www.tinyurl.com/hackbbonion

** Onion Forum 2.0
http://www.tinyurl.com/onionforum2

Each tinyurl link will take you to a hidden service discussion forum. Tor is required to visit these links, even though they appear to be on the open web, they will lead you to .onion sites.

I know the Tor developers can do better, but how many years are we to wait?

Caution: some topics may be disturbing. You should be eighteen years or older. I recommend you disable images in your browser when viewing these two forums[1] and only enabling them if you are posting a message, but still be careful! Disable javascript and cookies, too.

If you prefer to visit the hidden services directly, bypassing the tinyurl service:

HackBB: (directly)
http://clsvtzwzdgzkjda7.onion/

Onion Forum 2.0: (directly)
http://65bgvta7yos3sce5.onion/

The tinyurl links are provided as a simple means of memorizing the hidden services via a link shortening service (tinyurl.com).

[1]: Because any content can be posted! Think 4chan, for example. onionforum2 does not appear to be heavily moderated so be aware and take precautions.

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# 2. DNSCrypt for Linux, Windows, Mac (from opendns.com)

"In the same way the SSL turns HTTP web traffic into HTTPS encrypted Web traffic, DNSCrypt turns regular DNS traffic into encrypted DNS traffic that is secure from eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks. It does not require any changes to domain names or how they work, it simply provides a method for securely encrypting communication between our customers and our DNS servers in our data centers. We know that claims alone do not work in the security world, however, so we have opened up the source to our DNSCrypt code base and it is available on GitHub"

https://www.opendns.com/technology/dnscrypt/

- Download the right package for your Linux distribution:
https://blog.opendns.com/2012/02/16/tales-from-the-dnscrypt-linux-rising/

https://github.com/opendns/dnscrypt-proxy/blob/master/README.markdown
https://github.com/opendns
https://blog.opendns.com/2012/05/08/dnscrypt-for-windows-has-arrived/
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/05/dnscrypt-encrypts-your-dns-traffic-because-theres-always-someone-out-to-get-you/
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/DNSCrypt-a-tool-to-encrypt-all-DNS-traffic-1392283.html
http://blog.opendns.com/2012/02/06/dnscrypt-hackers-wanted/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/dnscrypt-930439/

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# In this post:
#
# 1. Tor Discussion Forums (two hidden services)
# 2. DNSCrypt - for Linux, Mac, and Windows (from opendns)

# 1. Tor Discussion Forums (two hidden services)

We need an official Tor discussion forum.

I did not see this issue mentioned in Roger's *latest* notes post, so for now, mature adults should visit and post at one or both of these unofficial tor discussion forums, these tinyurls will take you to:

** HackBB:
http://www.tinyurl.com/hackbbonion

** Onion Forum 2.0
http://www.tinyurl.com/onionforum2

Each tinyurl link will take you to a hidden service discussion forum. Tor is required to visit these links, even though they appear to be on the open web, they will lead you to .onion sites.

I know the Tor developers can do better, but how many years are we to wait?

Caution: some topics may be disturbing. You should be eighteen years or older. I recommend you disable images in your browser when viewing these two forums[1] and only enabling them if you are posting a message, but still be careful! Disable javascript and cookies, too.

If you prefer to visit the hidden services directly, bypassing the tinyurl service:

HackBB: (directly)
http://clsvtzwzdgzkjda7.onion/

Onion Forum 2.0: (directly)
http://65bgvta7yos3sce5.onion/

The tinyurl links are provided as a simple means of memorizing the hidden services via a link shortening service (tinyurl.com).

[1]: Because any content can be posted! Think 4chan, for example. onionforum2 does not appear to be heavily moderated so be aware and take precautions.

###

# 2. DNSCrypt for Linux, Windows, Mac (from opendns.com)

"In the same way the SSL turns HTTP web traffic into HTTPS encrypted Web traffic, DNSCrypt turns regular DNS traffic into encrypted DNS traffic that is secure from eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks. It does not require any changes to domain names or how they work, it simply provides a method for securely encrypting communication between our customers and our DNS servers in our data centers. We know that claims alone do not work in the security world, however, so we have opened up the source to our DNSCrypt code base and it is available on GitHub"

https://www.opendns.com/technology/dnscrypt/

- Download the right package for your Linux distribution:
https://blog.opendns.com/2012/02/16/tales-from-the-dnscrypt-linux-rising/

https://github.com/opendns/dnscrypt-proxy/blob/master/README.markdown
https://github.com/opendns
https://blog.opendns.com/2012/05/08/dnscrypt-for-windows-has-arrived/
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/05/dnscrypt-encrypts-your-dns-traffic-because-theres-always-someone-out-to-get-you/
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/DNSCrypt-a-tool-to-encrypt-all-DNS-traffic-1392283.html
http://blog.opendns.com/2012/02/06/dnscrypt-hackers-wanted/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/dnscrypt-930439/

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eof

# In this post:
#
# 1. Tor Discussion Forums (two hidden services)
# 2. DNSCrypt - for Linux, Mac, and Windows (from opendns)

# 1. Tor Discussion Forums (two hidden services)

We need an official Tor discussion forum.

I did not see this issue mentioned in Roger's *latest* notes post, so for now, mature adults should visit and post at one or both of these unofficial tor discussion forums, these tinyurls will take you to:

** HackBB:
http://www.tinyurl.com/hackbbonion

** Onion Forum 2.0
http://www.tinyurl.com/onionforum2

Each tinyurl link will take you to a hidden service discussion forum. Tor is required to visit these links, even though they appear to be on the open web, they will lead you to .onion sites.

I know the Tor developers can do better, but how many years are we to wait?

Caution: some topics may be disturbing. You should be eighteen years or older. I recommend you disable images in your browser when viewing these two forums[1] and only enabling them if you are posting a message, but still be careful! Disable javascript and cookies, too.

If you prefer to visit the hidden services directly, bypassing the tinyurl service:

HackBB: (directly)
http://clsvtzwzdgzkjda7.onion/

Onion Forum 2.0: (directly)
http://65bgvta7yos3sce5.onion/

The tinyurl links are provided as a simple means of memorizing the hidden services via a link shortening service (tinyurl.com).

[1]: Because any content can be posted! Think 4chan, for example. onionforum2 does not appear to be heavily moderated so be aware and take precautions.

###

# 2. DNSCrypt for Linux, Windows, Mac (from opendns.com)

"In the same way the SSL turns HTTP web traffic into HTTPS encrypted Web traffic, DNSCrypt turns regular DNS traffic into encrypted DNS traffic that is secure from eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks. It does not require any changes to domain names or how they work, it simply provides a method for securely encrypting communication between our customers and our DNS servers in our data centers. We know that claims alone do not work in the security world, however, so we have opened up the source to our DNSCrypt code base and it is available on GitHub"

https://www.opendns.com/technology/dnscrypt/

- Download the right package for your Linux distribution:
https://blog.opendns.com/2012/02/16/tales-from-the-dnscrypt-linux-rising/

https://github.com/opendns/dnscrypt-proxy/blob/master/README.markdown
https://github.com/opendns
https://blog.opendns.com/2012/05/08/dnscrypt-for-windows-has-arrived/
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/05/dnscrypt-encrypts-your-dns-traffic-because-theres-always-someone-out-to-get-you/
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/DNSCrypt-a-tool-to-encrypt-all-DNS-traffic-1392283.html
http://blog.opendns.com/2012/02/06/dnscrypt-hackers-wanted/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/dnscrypt-930439/

###

eof

We need an official Tor discussion forum.

I didn't see this issue mentioned in Roger's *latest* notes post, so for now, mature adults should visit and post at one or both of these unofficial tor discussion forums, these tinyurl's will take you to:

** HackBB:
http://www.tinyurl.com/hackbbonion

** Onion Forum 2.0
http://www.tinyurl.com/onionforum2

Each tinyurl link will take you to a hidden service discussion forum. Tor is required to visit these links, even though they appear to be on the open web, they will lead you to .onion sites.

I know the Tor developers can do better, but how many years are we to wait?

Caution: some topics may be disturbing. You should be eighteen years or older. I recommend you disable images in your browser when viewing these two forums[1] and only enabling them if you are posting a message, but still be careful! Disable javascript and cookies, too.

If you prefer to visit the hidden services directly, bypassing the tinyurl service:

HackBB: (directly)
http://clsvtzwzdgzkjda7.onion/

Onion Forum 2.0: (directly)
http://65bgvta7yos3sce5.onion/

The tinyurl links are provided as a simple means of memorizing the hidden services via a link shortening service (tinyurl.com).

[1]: Because any content can be posted! Think 4chan, for example. onionforum2 doesn't appear to be heavily moderated so be aware and take precautions.

----------
DNSCrypt for Linux, Windows, Mac (from opendns.com)

"In the same way the SSL turns HTTP web traffic into HTTPS encrypted Web traffic, DNSCrypt turns regular DNS traffic into encrypted DNS traffic that is secure from eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks. It doesnâ(TM)t require any changes to domain names or how they work, it simply provides a method for securely encrypting communication between our customers and our DNS servers in our data centers. We know that claims alone donâ(TM)t work in the security world, however, so weâ(TM)ve opened up the source to our DNSCrypt code base and itâ(TM)s available on GitHub"

https://www.opendns.com/technology/dnscrypt/

- Download the right package for your Linux distribution:
https://blog.opendns.com/2012/02/16/tales-from-the-dnscrypt-linux-rising/

https://github.com/opendns/dnscrypt-proxy/blob/master/README.markdown
https://github.com/opendns
https://blog.opendns.com/2012/05/08/dnscrypt-for-windows-has-arrived/
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/05/dnscrypt-encrypts-your-dns-traffic-because-theres-always-someone-out-to-get-you/
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/DNSCrypt-a-tool-to-encrypt-all-DNS-traffic-1392283.html
http://blog.opendns.com/2012/02/06/dnscrypt-hackers-wanted/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/dnscrypt-930439/

"That's quite true. However, your traffic is STILL going through your ISP. There literally isn't any way around that."

Tor, or:

DNSCrypt

"In the same way the SSL turns HTTP web traffic into HTTPS encrypted Web traffic, DNSCrypt turns regular DNS traffic into encrypted DNS traffic that is secure from eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks. It doesnâ(TM)t require any changes to domain names or how they work, it simply provides a method for securely encrypting communication between our customers and our DNS servers in our data centers. We know that claims alone donâ(TM)t work in the security world, however, so weâ(TM)ve opened up the source to our DNSCrypt code base and itâ(TM)s available on GitHub"

https://www.opendns.com/technology/dnscrypt/

- Download the right package for your Linux distribution:
https://blog.opendns.com/2012/02/16/tales-from-the-dnscrypt-linux-rising/

https://github.com/opendns/dnscrypt-proxy/blob/master/README.markdown
https://github.com/opendns
https://blog.opendns.com/2012/05/08/dnscrypt-for-windows-has-arrived/
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/05/dnscrypt-encrypts-your-dns-traffic-because-theres-always-someone-out-to-get-you/
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/DNSCrypt-a-tool-to-encrypt-all-DNS-traffic-1392283.html
http://blog.opendns.com/2012/02/06/dnscrypt-hackers-wanted/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/dnscrypt-930439/

The open source radeon driver is working flawlessly on my systems. Tear-free video, full Linux functionality, and acceptable 3D performance for light gaming. If you're having trouble with the open source driver, try LinuxQuestions.org.

Oh come on! The most interesting question did not make it to the list?!
What does the "J" stand for in "Patrick J. Volkerding"?

Watching a directory tree or mount point is possible with the new fanotify API. You define a mark -- from the looks of it, basically a pattern against which events are matched.

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-kernel-70/fanotify-howto-recursive-mark-directory-changes-918231/
https://lwn.net/Articles/360955/
https://lwn.net/Articles/339253/

This wasn't possible with inotify for an arbitrarily large number of files -- anyone who tried will remember inotify has to recursively scan and registers all files first.

gimme_filesystem_changes_since_i_last_checked() isn't done because that would require the kernel to keep a list that may grow arbitrarily.

You're welcome. Nautilus is the Gnome file manager. What is waaaay more nifty than .gvfs samba mounts by Gnome is that you can mount ssh "shares". Basically, if you have ssh access to a Unix machine, you can mount its filesystem graphically using ssh. (Look into the "SSH" option instead of "Windows Share"). If you have ssh keys setup, then it won't even ask your password. Pure bliss, especially if you quickly need files from home while at work and obviously you'd never expose a samba server to the Internet.

Samba used to be the de-facto way to connect to Windows servers (an probably still is if you don't use Gnome. I don't use KDE, so I don't know for KDE), but these days it's mainly to be found on the server that actually serves files. You'll still need samba if you want to serve files from your desktop.

Oddly enough, I don't have Windows machines and I use Samba on my file server (which runs OpenBSD, to make it even weirder). This is mainly historical because I used to have Windows machines and back then it was the only reasonable way to serve files. Personally, I haven't found anything better. From what I've seen NFS (which would be the Unix way to do it) is way less "friendly" and less fine-grained. From what I've seen NFS is only an option if you have a LDAP infrastructure and who does that at home? (Yes, yes, I've been toying with the thought)

If you want permanently mounted shares on your client machine, independent from the logged in user, samba is still the way to go. You'll have to add an entry in fstab though.

Just to be fully technically accurate. Gnome does use the samba libraries. It doesn't run a samba server (smbd and nmbd, which is the NetBIOS naming service) if you don't configure it that way. From my home installation on which, I promise, never installed samba manually:

jawtheshark@tiger:~$ aptitude search samba | grep ^i
i samba-common - common files used by both the Samba server
i samba-common-bin - common files used by both the Samba server
jawtheshark@tiger:~$ ps auxw | grep mbd
jawtheshark 16687 0.0 0.0 7624 920 pts/5 S+ 17:38 0:00 grep --color=auto mbd
jawtheshark@tiger:~$

Then again distrowatch is just one of the possible sites to look for download figures... Check out these figures: http://iso.linuxquestions.org/

OEMs don't need this to lock in hardware, they can do this just fine with regular BIOS.

Ditto -- your old drive probably isn't that good. Try several drives.

I use PC-Check to test drives. If you dig a bit you can find old version 10.5 of Hiren's BootCD with PC-Check. (There are very likely others -- perhaps someone could suggest? -- this is just what I've used and remember off the top of my head.)

Once you've got one or two drives that pass the stress test, then it's time to learn about 'dd'. That'll let you get the data directly off the old dicey media in one pass. You don't want to be doing multiple attempts trying to unzip from a flaky old floppy, things will just get worse. Put the data on something solid, then operate.

FWIW, a little more than half of my drives failed the stress test last time I sorted a pile of them.

Classic post - How To Do Everything With DD:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Applications_GUI_Multimedia/How_To_Do_Eveything_With_DD

Now try doing it with a GeForce Go 420M. You'll find that Additional Drivers for some reason installs nvidia-current, when that card isn't covered by that driver. However, loading nvidia-96 (the correct driver) now fails for me, stating that it's a broken package. When I try to fix it, it tells me I can't fix that broken package because it's broken.

Incidentally, you could always go to http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ubuntu-63/nvidia-96-series-drivers-for-ubuntu-11-04-a-879438/ and accuse me of copying that, or the actual bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-96/+bug/741930 but I only just found it after another half an hour or so of research. Apparently Ubuntu decided to move to a version of Xorg that doesn't work with my graphics card driver. So now, I get to regress back to an earlier version of Xubuntu/Ubuntu, switch distribution to one that works or just cut my losses and go back to Windows.

Adjustable-height monitors still exist, too. I just bought a replacement stand for mine last year that has both height and rotate. For $50.

They are not as common as they were when larger flatscreens first hit the market.

Anyway, that isn't the "screen height" the article refers to, which you would know if you had RTFA. It refers to the terminal height; you know, columns x rows/lines? Standard "screen height" is 24 lines but you can customize your terminal session to page by varying numbers of rows/lines.

Good starting points:

http://linux.die.net/man/1/setterm
http://linux.die.net/man/1/xterm
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/console-resolution-vga-values-432910/

That's all ready there.

[citation needed]

I am specifically referring to names in the kernel source tree using conflicting cases such as:

include/linux/netfilter/xt_connmark.h
include/linux/netfilter/xt_CONNMARK.h

This requires that the kernel source be stored on a case insensitive file system, and will not work with Cygwin, nor with the default filesystem for OS X.

Examples:
Local uncommitted changes, not checked in to index with gitk
Kernel 2.6.20 File Names Case Sensitivity
The Linux kernel needs a case sensitive filesystem
Another LFS newb is stuck: Linux API headers won't install

etc.

Do I tell him to use Debian and have a slightly more difficult time setting things up, but a better system in the end?

Yes.

Red Hat sells support, not software, they would do well to remember that.

Both; to be honest; their Release CD images are still valuable. The fact that they limit access to the open access to the support forums is a complete pain even when we are fully paid up because most of our internal users aren't registered with RedHat and so we will never give direct access to all the people who might need it.

I'm not yet at all sure that this RedHat thing is a big problem; if it really is, then the correct solution is a license change at the kernel level. If RedHat can do this, then so can anyone else. That means that the Linux kernel people have to initiate, support and get involved in a GPLv4 update, using their "diplomatic skills" to persuade the FSF they are a partner worth working with. They have to concentrate on getting most known kernel developers to agree to a future license update and eliminating those that don't.

In the meantime, the key thing is to make sure that upstream of RedHat, more of these patches get merged in more effectively. This will have the benefit for RedHat of taking work off RedHat; will put more work into a better condition, will make the upstream old kernels more valuable and will provide wider hardware support for all Linux based on old kernels.. Oracle could put a bunch of kernel developers and testers on the case. If nobody is willing to do this, then, to be honest, RedHat is doing the right thing

In the meantime; even if you are a RedHat customer, concentrate on putting answers you find to problems onto Linux Questions Wiki or forums where they will be available under the CC-SA for everyone.

Red Hat sells support, not software, they would do well to remember that.

Both; to be honest; their Release CD images are still valuable. The fact that they limit access to the open access to the support forums is a complete pain even when we are fully paid up because most of our internal users aren't registered with RedHat and so we will never give direct access to all the people who might need it.

I'm not yet at all sure that this RedHat thing is a big problem; if it really is, then the correct solution is a license change at the kernel level. If RedHat can do this, then so can anyone else. That means that the Linux kernel people have to initiate, support and get involved in a GPLv4 update, using their "diplomatic skills" to persuade the FSF they are a partner worth working with. They have to concentrate on getting most known kernel developers to agree to a future license update and eliminating those that don't.

In the meantime, the key thing is to make sure that upstream of RedHat, more of these patches get merged in more effectively. This will have the benefit for RedHat of taking work off RedHat; will put more work into a better condition, will make the upstream old kernels more valuable and will provide wider hardware support for all Linux based on old kernels.. Oracle could put a bunch of kernel developers and testers on the case. If nobody is willing to do this, then, to be honest, RedHat is doing the right thing

In the meantime; even if you are a RedHat customer, concentrate on putting answers you find to problems onto Linux Questions Wiki or forums where they will be available under the CC-SA for everyone.

I wanted to install Kubuntu using USB. Guess what, installer segfaults after creating new partition. I had to waste 2 days getting anything installed on my laptop.

And this problem was known at launchpad.

This has been brought up by others on slashdot before, but Linux tends to be either (A) fine and happy, or (B) pushed into a thrashing state from which it can never recover - like it takes 8 or 10 minutes to move the mouse cursor across the screen. Since there is relatively no warning before this happens, it makes a hard reboot just about the only option.

Will this patch help with that issue? Like the threads below say, once a modern (KDE/Gnome) desktop Linux starts swapping, there is so much new data produced per second by the GUI that it's basically game over. I'd like to see a fix for this: it's the single biggest cause on Linux that makes me do a hard reboot. I just don't have the patients to see if the thing will recover in half an hour or so, even though it might.

http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1836202&cid=33998198
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1836202&cid=33999108
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-kernel-70/swap-thrashing-can-nothing-be-done-612945/

The vulnerability is affecting kernels compiled with 32-bit compatibility support. Enabling this option seems to be the default, even on x64 systems that do not have 32-bit libraries and cannot execute 32-bit binaries. You can say

zcat /proc/config.gz | grep CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION

to see if you have it on. More info, and the origina hack.