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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta Arrives! Download Now And You Can Win $500

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 12/20/2013 12:55:00 am

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 Arrived With Expanded Container Support, Performance Profiles, XFS As the Default Filesystem & Many More. 
We have just spent a less than a month time after the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 made available globally, yet again the American multinational software company, leading the world for open-source software has announced the availability of a first public beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 7. Based on Fedora 19 and the upstream Linux 3.10 kernel, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 will provide users with powerful new capabilities that streamline and automate installation and deployment, simplify management, and enhance ease-of-use, all while delivering the stability that enterprises have come to expect from Red Hat. This further solidifies Red Hat Enterprise Linux's place as the world's leading Linux platform and a standard for the enterprise of the future. Whether rolling out new applications, virtualizing environments or scaling the business with cloud, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 delivers the keystone to IT success. The beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 adds value to new and existing IT projects across industries by adding key capabilities to improve critical but often cumbersome IT tasks like virtualization and storage while offering a clear pathway to the open hybrid cloud. In their official Red Hat Enterprise Linux YouTube channel, Red Hat posted a short video where you can hear what the team at Red Hat has to say about the next-generation of the world’s leading Linux platform.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta showcases hundreds of new features and enhancements, including: 
  • Linux Containers - Enabling applications to be created and deployed in isolated environments with allocated resources and permissions.
  • Performance Management – Using built in tools, you can optimize performance out-of-the-box.
  • Physical and Hosted In-place Upgrades - In-place upgrades for common server deployment types are now supported. Additionally, virtual machine migration from a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 host to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 host is possible, without virtual machine modification or downtime.
  • File Systems – File systems continue to be a major focus of development and innovation.
    • XFS is now the default file system, supporting file systems up to 500TB
    • ext4 file systems are now supported to 50TB and include block sizes up to 1MB
    • btrfs file systems are now available to test
  • Networking – Enhanced networking configuration and operation. Added support for some of the latest networking standards, including:
    • 40Gb Ethernet support
    • Improved channel bonding
    • TCP performance improvements
    • Low latency socket poll support
  • Storage – Expanded support for enterprise level storage arrays. Improved scalable storage stack for deployments that are less disk intensive. Improved storage management for heterogeneous storage environments.
  • Windows Interoperability – Bridge Windows™ and Linux infrastructure by integrating SAMBA 4.1 with existing Microsoft Active Directory domains. Or, deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux Identity Management in a parallel trust zone with Active Directory.
  • Subsystem Management – Simplified configuration and administration with uniform management tools for networking, storage, file systems, performance, identities and security. Leveraging the OpenLMI framework, enables use of scripts and APIs to automate management.
To know deeply about the hot features and enhancement of RHEL 7 beta 1, click here. I am quite sure that, after going through with the above description, all of you are very much excited to grab this brand new beta of RHEL 7. Like the previous beta release, this time also The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 beta has been made available to Red Hat customers, partners, and members of the public. For further information and to access the beta click here. Last but not least, with this release Red Hat also calls for an very interesting competition, where you can participate & win $500 while telling Red Hat, what interests you most in RHEL 7 beta. So what are you waiting for, lets download RHEL 7 and explore it. 

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Beta Release for Fedora 18 "Spherical Cow" is Now Available

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 11/29/2012 06:01:00 pm

Beta Release for Fedora 18 "Spherical Cow" is Now Available For Download & Testing 

After the huge success and response of Fedora 17, now its time to move one step ahead, as the developers at Fedora Project announced the general availability of the first and the final Beta version of Fedora 18 code named "Spherical Cow". This release includes the MATE desktop – a continuation of the classic GNOME 2 interface – in its repositories for the first time. Fedora 18's default edition uses GNOME 3.6.2 as its interface and a separate KDE Spin provides the KDE Software Collection 4.9.3; Xfce 4.10 and version 1.6.7 of Linux Mint's Cinnamon are also available from the distribution's repositories. 


Fedora 18 beta Some Highlighted Features:-
  • For users everywhere
  1. Fedora 18 offers a brand-new version of the Gnome desktop, version 3.6, straight from the upstream development process. Updates have also been made to the KDE, XFCE and Sugar desktop environments; additionally, the MATE desktop is available for the first time in Fedora.
  2. Fedora's new installer user interface enhances the anaconda installer with improvements in easeof use and installation.

  • For developers
  1. This release includes several language updates, including the move to Perl 5.16, updating the Python 3 stack from 3.2 to 3.3, Rails 3.2 and updated D and Haskell programming environments.

  • For system administrators
  1. Fedora 18 includes the final release of Samba 4, and can be used on an Active Directory domain out of the box. An integrated, new native management software allows you to access data and server information easily.
  2. OpenStack in Fedora 18 has been updated to Folsom, the most recent release by the OpenStack community. This Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform enables the creation and management of cloud infrastructure.
  3. Eucalyptus 3.1, another IaaS platform, is available in Fedora for the first time, and includes the major components of Eucalyptus.
  4. Storage System Management CLI tools simplify the user interface by providing unified abstraction and interface for multiple storage technologies, including lvm, btrfs and md raid.

The final release of Fedora 18 is expected later in the year. For more information on these and other Fedora 18 features, click Here. To download Fedora 18 "Spherical Cow" beta. click Here.






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Nessus 5.0.2 Vulnerability Scanner Released & Available For Download

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 10/11/2012 03:51:00 am

Nessus 5.0.2 Vulnerability Scanner Released & Available For Download 

Earlier we have discussed several times about Nessus, a proprietary comprehensive vulnerability scanning tool. After almost six months, yet again Tenable Network Security officially announced the availability of Nessus 5.0.2. According to surveys done by sectools.org, Nessus is the world's most popular vulnerability scanner, taking first place in the 2000, 2003, and 2006 security tools survey. Tenable estimates that it is used by over 75,000 organizations worldwide. This update is largely a bugfix release, however a new build for Solaris 10 is now available. The major issues addressed in 5.0.2 include enhanced support for UTF8 encoding problems in reports and the detection of network congestion errors during scans more conservatively. 

Official Change Log for Nessus 5.0.2:- 
  • UTF8 encoding problems would sometimes cause the generation of reports to fail 
  • Fixed a case where generating some compliance checks reports would cause the scanner to hang, using 100% of the CPU 
  • Resolved a resource leak issue occurring when a large number of different users are connected at the same time 
  • Network congestion errors are now detected more conservatively 
  • Upgraded libxml2, libxslt, openssl to their newest versions 
  • Some nessusd.rules directives were not honored by the port scanners 
  • Solaris 10 build
Other fixes:-
  • Smarter max_hosts and global.max_hosts defaults
  • Added support for named virtual hosts for IPv6
  • Fixed a memory leak when mixing IPv4 and IPv6 targets
  • Fixed the systemd control script (Fedora 16)
  • Fixed a crash in nessus-mkcert on the command-line (Win32)
  • Fixed a crash in localtime(), when passed an invalid argument (Win32)
  • Fixed scratchpad_query() to allow NULL arguments
  • PSSDK fix (Win32)

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Kaspersky Releases Linux Mail Security With Anti-malware, Anti-spam & Content Filtering

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 9/09/2012 12:59:00 am

Kaspersky Releases Linux Mail Security With Anti-malware, Anti-spam & Content Filtering 

Russian anti virus firm & security giant  Kaspersky Lab has released an anti-spam and anti-malware application called Linux Mail Security which can be integrated into different type of Linux-based mail server to fight spam and block malicious attachments. The latest spam-fighting features – including Reputation Filtering and Enforced Anti-Spam Updates Service  help to filter out zero-hour spam, while our new ZetaShield technology helps to shield businesses from zero-day and targeted attacks. Designed for integration with a range of Linux-based mail systems, Kaspersky Linux Mail Security delivers the security, flexibility and ease of management that businesses and ISPs demand. 

Key Features:- 
  • Advanced antivirus engine- Kaspersky Linux Mail Security includes the latest version of Kaspersky Lab’s award-winning antivirus engine – with behaviour stream signatures – to help detect and remove malicious attachments from incoming emails.

  • Zero-Day Exploit and Targeted Attack (ZETA) Shield- Kaspersky’s ZetaShield offers protection against unknown malware and exploits – to defend you from zero-day and zero-hour attacks and APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats).

Powerful Anti-Spam Engine- Kaspersky Linux Mail Security provides the latest version of Kaspersky’s anti-spam engine – including two powerful new technologies:
  • Enforced Anti-Spam Updates Service – uses push technology, directly from the Kaspersky cloud, to deliver real-time updates. By reducing the ‘update window’ from 20 minutes to approximately 1 minute, the Enforced Anti-Spam Updates Service helps to defend businesses against zero-hour spam and spam epidemics.
  • Cloud-assisted Reputation Filtering – fights against unknown spam, to enhance the spam capture rate and reduce the number of false positives.

Kaspersky Security Network -The cloud-based Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) gathers data from millions of participating users’ systems around the world to help defend your system from the very latest viruses and malware attacks. Potential threats are monitored and analysed – in real-time – to help block dangerous actions, before harm is caused.
Attachment filtering- The new Format Recogniser feature can filter attachments – using information about file type, name and message size. This helps businesses to enforce their email usage policy and can help to address corporate liability issues that can arise when users try to distribute illegal music or video files via the corporate email system.
Improved!Global Blacklists and Whitelists- In addition to creating corporate blacklists or whitelists, administrators can manage ‘allowed’ or ‘denied’ senders email – using IPv4 and IPv6, wildcards and regular expressions.
Personal Blacklists and Whitelists- Users also can create their own blacklists and whitelists.
Backup and personal backup with flexible search -Blocked email is quarantined in a backup system. If the system uses Microsoft Active Directory or OpenLDAP, individual users can access their personal backup via the web so they’re less likely to need to call your helpdesk.
Integration with most popular MTAs (Postfix, Sendmail, Exim, qmail and CommunigatePro)- Kaspersky Linux Mail Security lets you select the method of integration, depending on your choice of Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) – so you can integrate as a filter or using a Milter API.
Antivirus command line file scanner- The Kaspersky Anti-Virus On-Demand Scanner can be used for on-demand virus checking of objects – which can include directories, regular files and devices such as hard drives, flash drives and DVD-ROMs.
Amavisd-new- Kaspersky Linux Mail Security supports integration with Linux mail systems using the high-performance AMaViS interface.
Monitoring and Reporting features- 

  • SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) support – any type of event can be monitored using SNMP events and traps
  • A new dashboard gives an at-a-glance view of status and monitoring
  • Detailed, flexible reporting in PDF format – for customisable reports that help in the monitoring and analysis of security and policies
  • Notification system – informs administrators and document owners about policy violation incidents
  • Detailed logs – on all product actions, to help in identifying problems

Easy to deploy, maintain and manage- 

  • System administrators can run manual updates or set the rules for fully automatic updates of antivirus, anti-spam and ZetaShield
  • Integration with Active Directory and OpenLDAP
  • Rich email traffic management rules – administrators can create rules according to corporate security policies
  • IPv6 support
  • Scalable architecture – the entire system can be easily migrated from a test server to a production environment
Kaspersky Linux Mail Security will support the following Linux distributions - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Server, Fedora 16, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2, Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.4 Squeeze, CentOS 6.2, openSUSE Linux 12.1, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS; 12.04 LTS, Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.2, FreeBSD 8.3, 9.0, Canaima 3.0, Asianux 4 SP1. 


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Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle) ARM Edition Released

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 6/22/2012 01:19:00 am

Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle) ARM Edition Released 

We just past few weeks of Fedora 17 arrival, now the developers at the Fedora Project proudly announced that the stable version of the ARM edition of the Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle) operating system is now available for download. Fedora 17 ARM is available as prebuilt images for various platforms including the Trimslice, Beagleboard xM, Pandaboard, Kirkwood Plugs, Highbank and iMX-based systems. An image is also provided for the Versatile Express platform which can be emulated by QEMU. The prebuilt images with kernels that can be written directly to SD Card, USB, or SATA drive and booted without any additional steps or configuration. Additionally, separate kernels and tar balls are provided for those who wish to roll their own images.
Paul Whalen of Red Hat is inviting enthusiast to test the release. He writes on the mailing list, "We invite you to download the Fedora 17 GA release and provide your valuable input to the Fedora ARM team. Please join us on the IRC in #fedora-arm on Freenode or send feedback and comments to the ARM mailing list." Detailed information about Fedora 17 ARM can be found on the project wiki page.

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Fedora 18 Added UEFI Secure Boot (Security-Key Purchased From Microsoft)

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 6/04/2012 02:08:00 pm

Fedora 18 Added UEFI Secure Boot (Security-Key Purchased From Microsoft)
 
Many of us knows that Microsoft has been pushing hardware vendors for Secure UEFI as part of Windows 8. The tldr version of UEFI is that it's secure encryption on the physical hardware at the pre-boot layer. Basically in order to boot the hardware will have to have a secure key. But while making UEFI a very basic problem arose and that is it won't easily allow people to load Linux. To get rid of this burning issue Red Hat's Fedora Linux has a solution and it's not one that is entirely satisfactory. Fedora will buy a key via Microsoft that will enable it to run. This is the solution now being offered up by Fedora developer Matthew Garret (and his blog post has fantastic details about the whole concept and the deliberation)
The key costs $99 and the funds go to VeriSign (though hardware signing is done via Microsoft). The problem of course is that Fedora will perhaps be tied to Microsoft's Secure UEFI efforts in order to enable Linux on new hardware. The bigger problem would be if Secure UEFI wasn't dealt with and Linux wouldn't run on new hardware at all.
After eliminating options of creating their own Fedora key or an overall Linux key as too complex or costly, Garrett says they have decided to opt for the "least worst" option; have Microsoft sign Fedora. So for $99, Microsoft offer a signing service and this should ensure compatibility with a wide range of hardware. "If there are better options then we haven't found them" he added.




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Fedora 17 "Beefy Miracle" Released With JBoss Application Server, oVirt & More

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 5/31/2012 07:13:00 pm

Fedora 17 "Beefy Miracle" Released With JBoss Application Server, oVirt & More
Couple of weeks ago we got the Beta version of Fedora 17 and now the developers at Fedora Project announced the general availability of of its popular Linux distribution Fedora 17 code named "Beefy Miracle". According to the release note - "At the heat of a thousand hot dog cookers, the seventeenth release of Fedora shall be forged by contributors the world over, and it will be known as: Beefy Miracle. The mustard shall indicate progress. For six months, participants in the Fedora Project shall freely contribute to the release of the distribution, in the spirit of the Four Foundations -- Freedom, Friends, Features, and First -- and moreover, they shall relish in Fun, as a community without Fun would be like a day without sunshine..."
This new release includes a version of the GNOME Shell which works on systems with graphics drivers that don't support 3D acceleration. The latest version of the Linux distribution also implements much-discussed changes to the filesystem structure involving the removal of the /bin/, /sbin/, /lib/ and /lib64/ directories. A new sandbox feature allows applications to be easily isolated using KVM or LXC.
Fedora 17 includes a pre-release of Juno, the release of the  Eclipse SDK expected in June 2012.  Java 7 (and OpenJDK 7) is the default Java runtime and Java build toolset, and GCC 4.7.x is now the primary compiler in Fedora.  Other language refreshes include shipping Ruby 1.9.3, the latest stable version of the Ruby language; PHP 5.4, the latest PHP stack; an update of Erlang to the R15 release; and the D language has been updated to the 2.058 release.
Fedora 17 will increase your reliability and versatility with the new enhancements to the clustering stack in Fedora  17. Load balancing and high availability improvements have been made, allowing systems administrators to deploy Fedora in environments requiring greater availability and clustered file systems. JBoss Application Server (AS) 7 has also been added to Fedora 17; this fast, lightweight, and modular application server allows you to run full Java EE applications. oVirt, a server virtualization management system with advanced capabilities for hosts and guests, is also included.  The automatic multi-seat feature enables multiple, concurrent end-users to utilize a desktop from a single machine, which any systems administrator can relish. For detailed information about this release please go through the release note of Fedora 17.

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Fedora 17 Beta Codenamed "Beefy Miracle" Released

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 4/19/2012 06:02:00 pm

Fedora 17 Beta Codenamed "Beefy Miracle" Released 

After Fedora 16 codenamed "Verne" now the developers at Fedora Project announced the availability the next version of Fedora and that is Fedora 17 "Beta" code-named "Beefy Miracle". In this release you will get Linux kernel 3.3.0 along with enhanced security, Virtualization, cloud an many more. As per schedule the final version of Fedora 17 will be available on on 22 May this year.
The following are major features for Fedora 17:-
  • GNOME 3.4 and KDE 4.8
  • OpenStack, Eucalyptus, CloudStack and Open Nebula
  • ICC profiles for color printing and an improved gimp
  • Still more virtualization improvements
File Systems:-
Large filesystems -Fedora 17 will support file systems larger than 16 terabytes on the default file system (ext4). With the latest version of e2fsprogs, ext4 file systems can now be up to 100 TB.
Encrypted filesystems -Fedora 17 uses version 1.4.1 of the cryptsetup package, which removes deprecated API calls. In addittion, it supports placing LUKS headers on separate devices and the creation of shared, non-overlapping encrypted segments on a single device.
btrfs -btrfs is not available as a target file system during installation. This is a temporary situation and will be resolved in Fedora 18. btrfs is still available after installation.  
For detailed information and to know about the features in Fedora 17 Click Here 
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Serv-U FTP Server Added In RHEL Catalog As A Secure File Transfer Application

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 2/18/2012 12:16:00 am

Serv-U FTP Server Added In RHEL Catalog As A Secure File Transfer Application & Will Also Support  Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Mint
Red Hat enhancing more security in RHEL. After RhinoSoft joined the Red Hat partner program as an independent software vendor soon Serv-U FTP Server was added to the official Red Hat Linux product catalog as a secure file transfer application. Not only Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Serv-U will also supports Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Mint, CentOS and the Amazon Linux AMI for its EC2 cloud computing deployment.
"When we ported Serv-U to Linux last year it gave Linux administrators new capabilities like web-based administration, mobile transfers and integration with third-party portals," said RhinoSoft President Mark Peterson. "This year we reaffirmed our commitment to the Linux community by aligning with its largest platform provider."
"Our solutions make secure file transfer affordable to businesses, especially those facing budget challenges," said RhinoSoft VP of Product Management Jonathan Lampe. "Supporting Serv-U on a wide variety of platforms helps our customers save money through reduced training and overhead costs."
Brief About RhinoSoft:-
RhinoSoft is the global leader in affordable file transfer, with more than 90,000 business customers, including nine of the Fortune 10, in 90 different countries. Its award-winning and U.S. Department of Defense-certified Serv-U FTP Server and FTP Voyager client products support FTP, SFTP, FTPS and web-based HTTP/S transfers over FIPS 140-2 validated channels while continuing to incorporate emerging technologies such as mobile computing, IPv6, native 64-bit computing and UTF-8/Unicode internationalization.




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National Security Agency (NSA) Released Security Enhanced (SE) Android

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 1/17/2012 12:50:00 am


US National Security Agency (NSA) released the first public release of the Security Enhanced (SE) Android Project, a program designed to find and plug security holes and risks in the Android flavor of Linux. SE Android is based on the NSA’s SELinux, first released in 2000.
SEAndroid is the name of both a project to identify, and find solutions for, critical gaps in Android security and of a reference implementation of a security enhanced Android. The project is currently focusing its efforts on enabling SELinux functionality in the hope that it can limit the damage done by malicious apps, but hopes to widen its scope in the future.
SE Android was first publicly described at Linux Security Summit 2011. In essence, the NSA is attempting to bring the same access control and damage mitigation measures found in SELinux to the Android Open Source Project. In the Security Summit presentation, a number of known security vulnerabilities were demonstrated and tested against a version of Android running SE Android controls. All exploits failed unless specifically tailored to the particular system, and even in those cases the exploit’s effectiveness was much reduced.
SEAndroid is only available as source and is built by cloning the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) git repository, and then applying the SE Android modifications from the project’s git repository. Currently the project is builds on Fedora 16, and has built on Fedora 14 and 15. Instructions how to build for emulators and devices (specifically the Nexus S) and how to get started developing policies are available from the project’s wiki.




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Fuduntu 2012.1 (Fedora-based Linux Distro)

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 1/11/2012 03:13:00 pm


Fuduntu has released version 2012.1, the first release under their new numbering system where they have the year first then followed by release version. The Fuduntu quarterly installation ISO image (2012.1) is now available for download. As with all Fuduntu releases, this release continues the older tradition of small incremental improvements. It is important to note that existing Fuduntu users will roll up to this version through the normal update process, and do not need to download or install from this media to benefit from this release.

Brief Overview:-

Fuduntu is a Fedora-based Linux distro created by Andrew Wyatt, designed to fit in somewhere between Fedora and Ubuntu, hence the name. The main features of this latest release is an updated Linux Kernel - to 3.1.6, Chromium 16 and Adobe Flash Player 11.1.102.55.  It is designed to be aesthetically pleasing, and is optimized for Netbook and other portable computers. Fuduntu isn't limited to portable computers however, it is a fantastic desktop distribution too.

A Few of The Default Packages Found in Fuduntu :-
  • Chromium
  • Banshee
  • VLC
  • Adobe Flash (licensed)
  • Fluendo MP3 Codec (licensed)
  • Infinality Freetype
  • Nautilus Elementary
  • Jupiter

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openSUSE 12.1 With Btrfs, GNOME 3.2, Systemd & So on

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 11/17/2011 05:46:00 pm


OpenSUSE developer community has released ver12.1. openSUSE 12.1 Beta (Asparagus) was also released earlier in this year.  At first glance, openSUSE 12.1 is pretty much in line with recent releases from Fedora and Ubuntu: GNOME 3.2, KDE 4.7, Kernel 3.1, systemd, etc. But a closer look starts to reveal some real divergence between the various Linux offerings today. For example, while Fedora 16 allows you to choose btrfs for your filesystem, openSUSE 12.1 uses btrfs by default. There’s a number of other interesting advancements packed in this release, too.
The filesystem features provided by btrfs are enhanced on openSUSE 12.1 with Snapper, a user-space utility to take, compare, and revert snapshots of files. This has huge potential to make life better for users. It certainly won’t eliminate the need for backups, but it’s a strong step in the right direction. Similarly, openSUSE 12.1 includes support for ownCloud, “slim yet powerful private cloud software”. Again, this isn’t going to eliminate Dropbox or similar services, but it’s a step in the right direction toward self-sufficiency for regular end users in the Free Software space.
The update to openSUSE is also the first to incorporate a new release numbering system; the previous release was openSUSE 11.4. From 12.1 onward, the 8 month release cycle will see a x.1 release in November, an x.2 release in July and a x.3 release in March when the cycle starts over again. So, the future releases of openSUSE will be 12.2 in July 2012, 12.3 in March 2013 and 13.1 in November 2013.

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Fedora 16, Codenamed "Verne" Released

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 11/08/2011 10:53:00 pm


Fedora 16, codenamed "Verne", is due to be released today. Fedora has decome the "poster child" for the Gnome 3 desktop, since being the first of the major distributions to use it (in their Fedora 15 release). So there are a lot of high hopes associated with this release, people are really anxious to see if the Fedora/Gnome 3 desktop is improving as it matures. As expected, the Fedora Project developers unleashed a few minutes ago, November 8th, the immediate availability for download and testing of the final and stable version of the Fedora 16 operating system, dubbed Verne.
Fedora 16 (Verne) is powered by the newly released Linux kernel 3.1, it features the GNOME 3.2.1 desktop environment with the GNOME Shell interface and the KDE Software Compilation 4.7.2 environment. Fedora 16 includes OpenStack, lots of SELinux enhancements, updated Haskell, Perl and Ada environments, Blender 2.5, Boost 1.47, TigerVNC 1.1, and much more. 

Over View of Fedora 16:-
  • Linux kernel 3.1.0;
  • GNOME 3.2.1 desktop environment (with GNOME Shell);
  • KDE Software Compilation 4.7.2;
  • GRUB2;
  • Systemd services management;
  • SELinux improvements;
  • 1000 System accounts;
  • Added Chrony NTP client;
  • Removed HAL;
  • Removed ConsoleKit;
  • Automatic Multi-seat support;
  • Support for cloud computing;
  • Restored support for Xen;
  • Enhanced Spice 0.10 app to manage virtual machines;
  • Many improvements for developers;
  • Aeolus Conductor;
  • Blender 2.5;
  • Boost 1.47;
  • Glasgow Haskell Compiler 7.0.4;
  • Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1;
  • GNOME Input integration;
  • libvirt networking support improvements;
  • New mkdumprd for kdump;
  • Perl 5.14;
  • Static analysis of CPython extensions;
  • Sugar 0.94;
  • TigerVNC 1.1;
  • USB Network Redirection and so on.
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Fedora 16 (Verne) is Coming With Lots of Big Changes

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 11/03/2011 05:32:00 pm


Fedora 16 is code-named Verne, for Jules Verne is coming with big changes. The beta version was released on the october. Fedora is both a great testbed for new technologies, and a good distro with a strong commitment to free (as in freedom) software. Fedora was the first, or among the first to roll out SELinux, a free Java environment (GNU Java, OpenJDK, and ecj) back before Sun's Java was converted to the GPL, PulseAudio, and Nouveau.  

Fedora's QA Community Monkey, explains:-
"Fedora isn't only a test bed, it is a perfectly usable distro as a daily driver. It is going to be slightly less dependable and polished than Ubuntu for such use, in general. Everyone has a slightly different take on Fedora but I like to see it as being kind of a prototype, or maybe a first-year model; it's not exactly that we're not trying to build an awesome usable desktop / server distro, but we tend to introduce a lot of very Shiny New Stuff and do it on a very aggressive schedule. And of course we don't provide any non-free drivers or worry overmuch about making sure they work, which can be a consideration. I run the next-stable-version on my desktop most of the time and it's totally workable, and I run my servers on current-stable-Fedora. But there may be the odd occasion where something breaks, and version upgrades can be a bit bumpy."
F16 introduces a number of significant changes: GRUB 2 replaces legacy GRUB, HAL is gone and replaced by udisks, upower, and libudev, migration from SysV init to native Systemd continues (scheduled for completion in F17), and a number of cloud utilities and OpenStack are included. btrfs, the much-hyped filesystem that is supposed to become the Linux default, was supposed to be the default for Verne, but it's still not ready. The main snag is the lack of a dependable, fully-functional fsck, so look for it in F17. You can still use it if you like because it is an option in the installer when you set up partitions. And, as Adam Williamson revealed, "btrfs has been available as a Sekrit Option in the installer for several releases, you make it available by passing a kernel parameter to the installer. For a while this was, awesomely, 'icantbelieveitsnotbtr', but now it's just plain 'btrfs'."

More Spins of Fedora:-
  • GNOME 3.2
  • KDE
  • LXDE
  • XFCE
  • Electronic Lab
  • Security Lab
  • Games
  • Design Suite

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Fedora Project Forces Users to Change Password & ssh Key

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 10/14/2011 06:29:00 pm


The Fedora Project has posted an announcement advising current users of the Fedora Account System to change their password and SSH public key before 30 November or risk their accounts being marked as inactive. The information was posted to the Fedora "announce" mailing list by Infrastructure Lead Kevin Fenzi, who stated that the change was "due to the large number of high profile sites with security breaches in recent months". Recently reported breaches include those of WineHQ, The Linux Foundation and kernel.org. The new move is precautionary, and is not due to any "specific compromise or vulnerability in Fedora Infrastructure".
The request sets out the requirement for passwords of at least 9 characters in length (20 if only lowercase characters are used) and notes that a new SSH public key must also be generated to avoid an account being marked as inactive. The announcement also includes a "Do's and Don'ts" section with several tips for increasing personal security. Instructions for changing Fedora Account System passwords and SSH public keys can be found in the Q&A section of the announcement.
According to Fedora:-
"All existing users of the Fedora Account System (FAS) at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts are required to change their password and upload a NEW ssh public key before 2011-11-30. Failure to do so may result in your account being marked inactive. Passwords changed and NEW ssh public keys uploaded after 2011-10-10 will meet this requirement.

Backgound and Reasoning:-
This change event has NOT been triggered by any specific compromise or  vulnerability in Fedora Infrastructure. Rather, we believe, due to the large number of high profile sites with security breaches in recent months, that this is a great time for all Fedora contributors and users to review their security settings and move to "best practices" on their machines. Additionally, we are putting in place new rules for passwords to make them harder to guess.

New Password Rules:-
  • Nine or more characters with lower and upper case letters, digits and punctuation marks.
  • Ten or more characters with lower and upper case letters and digits.
  • Twelve or more characters with lower case letters and digits
  • Twenty or more characters with all lower case letters.
  • No maximum length.
Some Do's and Don'ts:-
  • NEVER store your ssh private key on a shared or public system.
  • ALWAYS use a strong passphrase on your ssh key.
  • If you must store passwords, use an application specifically for this purpose like revelation, gnome-keyring, seahorse, or keepassx.
  • Regularly apply your operating system's security related updates.
  • Only use ssh agent forwarding when needed ( .ssh/config: "ForwardAgent no")
  • DO verify ssh host keys via dnssec protected dns. ( .ssh/config:"VerifyHostKeyDNS yes")
  • DO consider a seperate ssh key for Fedora Infrastructure.
  • Work with and use security features like SELinux and iptables.
  • Review the Community Standard Infrastructure security document 


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British Chamber of Commerce & Ministry of Culture and Tourism Indonesia Hacked By TEAM T!g3R

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 10/10/2011 05:45:00 pm


Vulnerability found by TEAM T!g3R on the official website of Ministry of Culture & Tourism and British Chamber of Commerce, Indonesia.
Vulnerable Website:-
http://www.budpar.go.id
http://www.britcham.or.id
 
Vulnerability:-
SQL-i
TEAM T!g3R also hacked into the database of these two websites and exposed sensitive data like server details, DB name, user name, password, admin details and so on.

Ministry of Culture & Tourism Indonesia:-
Admin Deatils:-
user       pass
admin     d3affb50918890deaf19360c7c?1d28
dadi       1601642654c68e2b?975be78915c8c7e
Database Name:-
Current DB:- budpar
Current DB:- information_schema
Web-Server:- Apache/2.2.14 (Fedora)
Hack Proof:-
For More information Click Here

British Chamber of Commerce Indonesia:-
Server Details:-
Target:-                 http://www.britcham.or.id
Host IP:-                202.67.9.74
Web Server:-         Apache/2.2.19 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.19 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 DAV/2 PHP/5.2.17
Powered-by:-          PHP/5.2.17
DB Server:-            MySQL
Resp. Time(avg):-   2744 ms
Current User:-        britcham_user1@localhost
Sql Version:-           5.0.51a-community
Current DB:-           britcham_database
System User:-         britcham_user1@localhost
Host Name:-           asterix.serverku.com
Installation dir:-     asterix.serverku.com
Installation dir:-     /
DB User:-               'britcham_user1'@'localhost'
Admin Deatils:-
Data Found: user_name=britcham
Data Found: user_password=0b176060ef08c8d37d8aa756075c52ad
Data Found: user_id=1
Data Found: user_name=admin
Data Found: user_password=admin
Data Found: user_id=1
Hack Proof:-
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Fedora 16 (Verne) Beta is Now Available

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 10/05/2011 06:22:00 pm


The Fedora Project has made the first and only beta of Fedora 16 available for download. It should include all of the major changes for the new distribution, code-named "Verne". Over the next five weeks leading up to the final release, development will focus on fine tuning and bug fixes.
Major changes in Fedora 16 include the switch to Grub2, Xen Dom0 support and increased reliance on systemd. At the last minute the development team has also added Java 7, expected to be designated as a technical preview and not to operate as the standard runtime environment for Java software. The beta uses some unfinished software, including a pre-release of Linux 3.1, the final version of which is scheduled for release in around two weeks time. It also includes a pre-release of GNOME 3.2, the final version of which was released last week. This version is already being distributed to beta users via the update testing repository and, like the new Linux kernel, is expected to be included in the final version of Verne.
Like the alpha, the beta also hits the streets one week later than originally scheduled, as the development team was keen to fix a few problems. Delays like this are the rule, rather than the exception at Fedora. As a result, the release date for Fedora 16 has been set back by a second week. As long as the Fedora Project doesn't change the schedule again, there should be a release candidate (RC) of Fedora 16 in late October, though it will not be disseminated as widely as the alpha and beta versions. Verne is scheduled for release on Tuesday 8 November, three days before openSUSE 12.1, the first beta version of which is also available for testing.

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openSUSE 12.1 Beta (Asparagus) With Gnome 3 Released

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 10/04/2011 05:31:00 pm


The much-awaited Beta release of openSUSE 12.1 is here!  And just in time for your weekend Beta Pizza Party.  So fire up that oven and warm up that download manager because its time to get ready for the latest awesome openSUSE on your computer. openSuSE, 12.1 (code named Asparagus) is now using Gnome 3. The default desktop is the same as Gnome 3 under Fedora
If you’ve been following openSUSE news, you know this release was originally called Milestone 6.  However, the release team and its testers agreed this round of testing showed Milestone 6 to be so stable and ready for general testing, they decided to call it Beta.  And that means that if you’ve been thinking about taking a pre-release of 12.1 for a spin before our final release in November, there’s no time like the present.
Testing is even easier nowadays with the ease of setting up a virtual machine so you won’t have to worry about affecting your actual production machine.  Naturally, with any pre-release, you’ll want to check out the list of known bugs to make sure there’s nothing that catches you by surprise. And as with any release, we welcome your reports of any bugs not already found so we can make the final release of openSUSE 12.1 even more awesome.

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Kororaa Linux 15 Released (Based on Fedora 15, Lovelock)

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 9/23/2011 03:29:00 pm

Dubbed Squirt, the new Kororaa 15 OS is now based on the Fedora 15 release, it features both KDE SC 4.6 and GNOME 3 desktop environments, and it is available for download (see download links at the end of the article) for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. Kororaa 15 includes lots of new and interesting features, such as Ubuntu’s Jockey Device Driver Manager tool as a replacement for the old Add/Remove Extras script, easier installation of the Adobe Flash Player plugin, and lots more.
"Users still on Kororaa 14 may wish to upgrade to 15 and should do so via a new install (backup your data if necessary). Users who wish to stay with GNOME 2.x should not upgrade to 15, as it comes with GNOME 3."
"However, Kororaa 15 does include a desktop switcher for GNOME 3, so that users can switch between the new Shell interface and the 2.x style Fallback mode." - said Chris Smart in the official announcement.

Highlights of Kororaa 15:-

· Linux kernel 2.6.40.4;
· Customized GNOME 3 desktop environment;
· Customized KDE SC 4.6 desktop environment;
· Mozilla Firefox 6 as default web browser;
· VLC as default video player;
· Pidgin as the default IM client;
· Extra repositories for installing Adobe Flash Player, Google Chrome,                     RPMFusion and VirtualBox;
· Gwibber and Choqok microblogging clients;
· Out-of-the-box multimedia support;
· Adobe Flash Player installer;
· Jockey Device Driver Manager to easily install Nvidia and ATI video drivers;
· Shell and Fallback desktops switcher for GNOME 3;
· OpenShot and Kdenlive video editors;
· SELinux enabled;
· Australian and British English support and dictionaries;
· DownThemAll add-on for Firefox;
· Linphone VoIP client (for the KDE edition);
· Removed KSplice;
· Removed Add/Remove Extras script;
· Lots of other improvements and bugfixes.

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NetbootCD 4.5 (Install Many Linux Distributions From One Disk)

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 9/19/2011 05:27:00 pm



NetbootCD is a GNU/Linux live CD based on Tiny Core Linux. The live CD allows the user to download and run one of several Linux netboot installers, which can install a full GNU/Linux system with only a hard drive and Internet connection.
Several of the distributions supported by NetbootCD are prerelease distributions (such as Debian testing) or development distributions (openSUSE Factory, Fedora Rawhide, Debian sid.) Because NetbootCD downloads the latest installer, which in turn downloads the latest system components, you can install a fully up-to-date system without burning a new CD.

The following distributions are install-able from the current Netboot CD:-

  • Ubuntu
  • Debian GNU/Linux (standard and daily installers)
  • Fedora
  • openSUSE
  • Mandriva Linux
  • CentOS
  • Slackware
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