Most commonly exploited UNIX vulnerabilities?

Poor system administration practices

Reusable/poor passwords

Flawed SUID programs (e.g., rdist, binmail)

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My desktop OS: Frugalware

I'm from Italy, and Italian men are well-known for appreciating beautiful women. Meanwhile, Hungarian women are well-known for being beautiful. Maybe it's no coincidence that my desktop OS is a beautiful Hungarian Linux distro: the brand new Frugalware 0.4

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Programmers’ prose sought in Linux essay contest

Can you craft a sentence as well as you can code a Linux hack? If so, Intel and the Linux Symposium want to hear from you, with a new competition for the best essay on Linux.

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Linux primer for networkers

Installing, supporting and particularly diagnosing networks can involve much detective work, in addition to decent levels of frustration and caffeine. As with all investigations, the more data that is available to form and test hypotheses, the more likely a problem will be solved.

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Firefox: Use “/” To Search

I don't have any idea why I didn't know this before, but in Firefox you can search within a given web page by pressing the "/" key (that's a forward slash). For those that are *nix-literate, you'll recognize this as the way to search within vi…

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Micro Center isn’t a happy home for Linux

Last November, Linspire issued a press release announcing that Micro Center would be devoting floor space and staff to desktop Linux. I decided to take a trip to my local Micro Center this week to see how that initiative was going. Unfortunately, the answer is not so well.

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Linux Snobs: Real Barriers to Entry

One particularly distraught new Linux user came to me and shared how his meeting with a number of Linux "pros" turned to a bash Windows, bash him and bash everything he said gathering. Instead of answering his question regarding which GUI they prefer to use on their systems, the response was a clear: "you ignoramous! Go back to your Windows."

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HP’s Linux VP Rips IBM for not offering “True” open source choice

IBM makes more than $1 billion dollars a quarter from Linux and according to HP’s new VP of Open Source/Linux, IBM doesn’t offer customers true open source choice..apparently HP does.

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Taking backup using tar command in linux and unix

The tar backup program is an archiving program designed to store and extract files from an archive file known as a tarfile. A tarfile may be made on a tape drive; however, it is also common to write a tarfile to a normal file

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The Perfect Setup – Fedora Core 5

This is a detailed description how to set up a Fedora Core 5 based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server (with SMTP-AUTH and TLS), DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.).

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