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Linux-Announce Digest #364
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Linux-Announce Digest #364, Volume #4 Thu, 27 Mar 2003 15:13:02 EST
Contents:
Debian Desktop User's Guide (TekMate)
ILUG-Belgaum... an event this weekend ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
Networking made easy... security... paranoia for beginners (Linux ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
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From: TekMate <tekmate@nospam.hotmail.com>
Subject: Debian Desktop User's Guide
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 19:40:40 CST
The Debian Desktop User's Guide is a project to bring up-to-date and
effective documentation to new Debian users. This document is based on
the Progeny user's guide. This guide is planned to be released in
conjunction with Sarge. We are currently looking for volunteers to help
with some of the sections check the proposal and changelog for more
information. http://cafecomputer.com/guide/users-guide.en.html
--
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Yet another Linux FAQ 2.2
http://www.cafecomputer.com/faqindex.htm
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: ILUG-Belgaum... an event this weekend
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 22:13:48 CST
ILUG-BELGAUM, ONE OF the younger LUGs around the place, is to hold its
first major GNU/Linux meet in the north Karnataka town of Belgaum on the
weekend. It is being held over Saturday afternoon and the entire of
Sunday. If you'd like more details, contact rohankangralkar@hotmail.com or
check out the discussion and announcements at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-belgaum.
We from the Goa LUG wish them all the best for and this and other
forthcoming events. FN
--
Frederick Noronha : http://www.fredericknoronha.net : When we speak of free
Freelance Journalist : http://www.bytesforall.org : software we refer to
Ph 0091.832.2409490 : Cell 0 9822 122436 : freedom, not price.
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Networking made easy... security... paranoia for beginners (Linux
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 01:29:05 CST
Linux Magazine (Munich) www.linux-magazine.com ... which calls itself
'the magazine for advanced Linux know-how'
o Security links of various major distros
http://www.debian.org/security/
http://www.mandrakesecure.net
http://www.redhat.com/errata/
http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/
http://www.sco.com/support/security/
http://www.slackware.com/lists/
http://www.suse.de/uk/private/support/security/
o NETWORKING MADE EASY: In today's high tech world, we all have to deal
with computers. Whether it is part of a multinational's work
group or just a small office/home office, the chances are we need
at some point to interconnect to a network. Here GNU/Linux
rules above all others, writes John Southern.
Also - Linux in LANS
- Network configuration under Red Hat 8.0
- The SuSE Distribution Network configuration (YaST)
- Using Windows shares
- Samba share configuration
- Integrating NT4 domains with Samba
- User management and authentication for Samba
WORTH NOTING: Microsoft will soon be withdrawing its support
for Windows NT4, but Samba for Linux offers a free alternative
that provides both users and administrators with a familiar
environment.
o CHECK POINT SecurePlatform with firewall: CheckPoint's
SecurePLatform provides a hardened Red Hat Linux with
Check Point's own Firewall-1NG and allows you to install a
firewall yourself within a few minutes -- without any
assistance from systems integrators or consultants.
o MS OFFICE UNDER LINUX: Codeweavers, the makers of
Crossover Office -- with more than a little
help from Wine -- promise to get the Microsoft
Office Suite and a few other Windows programs running
on Linux without any hassle. www.codeweavers.com
Single license price approx US$ 55.
o SOFT HARDWARE, THE BOCHS PC EMULATOR: Though the FLOSS
community has developed free alternatives to complex Office
suites, PC emulators have proven challenging so far. Despite
poor performance, the Bochs ('box') project is at least
interesting for test purposes. http://bochs.sourceforge.net
o TIDYING UP DOCUMENTS: Part 2 of the LaTeX series
looks at putting some structure into your documents.
Divide documents into sections and chapters,
creating tables of contents, using various list
formats and tables, and working with cross-references
and footnotes.
o BLOCKS AND MESSAGES: The SMB (Server Message Block) protocol
specifies how Windows computers communicate on a network.
SMB provides access to files, printers, serial lines, and
communication channels, such as named pipes and mailshots.
Samba is a free SMB implementation. Just what is SMB --
an intro www.samba.org/cifs/docs/what-is-smb.html
o MySQL BACKUP: Admins often tend to use mysqldump,
a component from the MySQL package, when they
need to backup MySQL data. But a more convenient
method is MySQL backup.
o PARANOIA FOR BEGINNERS: Info security on GNU/Linux.
http://www.kerneli.org/
http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/
http://gsu.linux.org.tr/wipe/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/securedelete/
http://wipe.sourceforge.net/
http://www.outguess.org/
http://wwwrn.inf.tu-dresden.de/~westfeld/f5.html
http://linux01.gwdg.de/~alatham/stego.html
http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest/
http://tinfoihat.shmoo.com
http://www.zapatopi.net/afdb.html
o KEEPING IN SYNC: rsync program allows you to
synchronise local or remote files and directories
using the "rsync remote-update protocol" that
first checks for differences between source and target
before data transfer commences, thus minimizing
transfer volume.
o Stadrin is an effective enterprise tool for
raising security levels, esp where the static
passwords authentication systems are no longer
sufficient.
o INTERACTIVE 3D worlds with Coin and Qt.
o LinuxBIOS Project: Putting GNU/Linux on
your motherboard.
o KNewsticker DELIVERS THE latest news hot off the press.
o Icewm, YOU CAN use an oldermachine as a
graphical desktop with light-weight alternative
window managers (blackbox, fluxbox, aewm,
pwm, larswm) and panels (fbpanel, hpanel,
fspanel).
o COLOUR CODES: syntax highlighting can improve read-
ability when integrating your source code into a
website or document.
o CREATING CD images with mkisofs & dd
o EVER SINCE WOODY, Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 hit the scene,
users have started turning to the flagship amongst
free distributions. Some help to counter initial
obstacles from Dr Linux.
o BraveGNUWorld by Georg C F Greve looks at
Ninvaders (clone of the console classic
Space Invaders), GNOME-Annotate (make notes
while working with a web browser), RULE (helping
GNU/Linux work on earlier generation hardware)
- http://dettus.dyndns.org/ninvaders/
- http://home.swipnet.se/darshiva/software.html
- http://www.rule-project.org
- http://brave-gnu-world.org
o ON THE CD: Kolab server (Germany's IT security federal
agency has contracted three firms to provide a Free
Software groupware solution accessible with Windows
running Outlook and GNU/Linux running KDE clients),
Amaya (browsing/authoring tool to publish docs on
the Web... WYSIWYG style of interface), RH8 updates,
games (3D Open GL Action RPG Space Simulator...)
o Next month:
- Groupware
- Mail User Agents
- Multi distributions
- Lindows
- Bootable CDs
o SEND LETTERS and feedback to letters@linux-magazine.com
--
Frederick Noronha : http://www.fredericknoronha.net : When we speak of free
Freelance Journalist : http://www.bytesforall.org : software we refer to
Ph 0091.832.2409490 : Cell 0 9822 122436 : freedom, not price.
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