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Linux-Announce Digest #490
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Sun Jul 27 20:13:09 2003
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Linux-Announce Digest #490, Volume #4 Sun, 27 Jul 2003 20:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Linux Journal * Aug 2003 * ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Linux Journal * Aug 2003 *
Date: 27 Jul 2003 20:45:01 GMT
WHAT'S IN THE issue:
o 2003 Editors' Choice Awards go to Sputnik AP 120 (server
appliance), Netfilter/iptables (security tool-hardware or software),
Newisys 2100 (server), Dell Precision 650n (workstation), Mozilla 1.4 (web
browser or client), Jahshaka (graphics software), Gaim (communication
tool), OpenOffice.org (desktop software), Perl 5.8.0 (development tool),
PostgreSQL (database), Webmin (management or admin software), Lindows
Mobile PC (mobile device), Frozen Bubble (game), Understanding teh Linux
Kernel 2nd e by Bovet and Cesati (book), Linux Weekly News (website), SGI
Altix 3000 (product of the year).
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| o How does Linux measure up for users with
| disabilities? Read what Janina Sajka, director
| of tech research and dvpt of the American
| Foundation for the Blind (AFB) has to say...
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o Zope... and content management frameworks (CMFs).
Detailed three page article
o US National Security Agency's Security Enhanced (SE) Linux
offers fine-grained mandatory access controls in your
system. This allows you to put even limits on what root
can do. Three page article.
o SE Linux gives you an extra layer of security that
protects the system even from root. Another article by
Russell Coker shows how it works by giving everyone
root access.
o Network monitoring tools: netstat, Nnetstat,
Driftnet, pkstat, IPTraf...
o Authenticate with LDAP: Once your directory server is
running, how to configure crypto and add some users...
o Device classes: Necessary instructions to
make your new device driver play nice in the
2.6 kernel.
o Doc Searls: "...the political remains as important
as it ever was. Let's remember, if it weren't for the
political penguins who got the snowball rolling, the
practical penguin movement never would have picked
up its mass and momentum.
o What were the special challenges GNU/Linux
faced in meeting the special challenges
for creating the movie THE HULK
(release June 2003)?
o Can you trust 'Trusted Computing'? Learn how it
works with free software that lets you store your
own keys securely...
o What's new in Kernel development
o Inventory: qballsinventory.sourceforge.net
o Implementing encrypted home directories...
o Eleven SSH tricks
o VTun - link your home and office securely with
a virtual private network.
o Red Hat 9: Reviewed by Marco Fioretti
"It took everyone by surprise, including this
reviewer, who was expecting an 8.1 release. As
a matter of fact, starting with this release,
the offering from Red Hat has changed, clearly
splitting into two lines with different purposes
and targets...
o TotalView gives you what you need to debug even
the most complex threaded programs. Try TotalView
free (of cost) at www.etnus.com
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Frederick Noronha (FN) | http://www.fredericknoronha.net
Freelance Journalist | http://www.bytesforall.org
http://goalinks.pitas.com | http://joingoanet.shorturl.com
http://linuxinindia.pitas.com | http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks
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