The Perfect Desktop - Debian Etch (Debian 4.0)

With the release of Microsoft's new Windows operating system (Vista), more and more people are looking for alternatives to Windows for various reasons. In this tutorial I will show people who are willing to switch to Linux how they can set up a Linux desktop (Debian Etch in this article) that fully replaces their Windows desktop, i.e. that has all software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that runs also on older hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

SUM, configura Grub de forma grafica

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Free Software vs. Open Source

Tanto Open Source como Free Software son movimientos sociales, preocupados sobre lo que puedes o debes poder hacer (derechos) con los programas (software). Tienen diferencias filosóficas pero pocas diferencias practicas.

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Siete razones por las cuales Microsoft ama al Software Libre

Durante la Microsoft MIX William Hurley quién dirigió el grupo “Open Source, the Web, Interoperability, and Microsoft” publicó una lista con las siete razones por las cuales Microsoft ama el software libre...

Ubuntu Linux Vs. Windows Vista: The Battle For Your Desktop

Is Linux finally ready to take on Windows as a desktop OS? We tried out both Vista and Ubuntu on individual PCs to see which works better. Here's who won.

Five Basic Mistakes Not to Make in DNS

Here are five things you can do to make sure your DNS is in good shape and not causing problems for the rest of the Internet, which, by the way, also includes you.

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FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-07:03.ipv6

There is no mechanism for preventing IPv6 routing headers from being used to route packets over the same link(s) many times.

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Linux Kernel 2.6.21 Published

Linus Torvalds has released Linux 2.6.21 after months of development. This release improves the virtualization with VMI, a paravirtualization interface that will be used by Vmware...

Sharing files between Feisty and Windows XP or VISTA

This guide to install samba server on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, will help you share files from your Ubuntu Feisty with the windows machines on your network.

Nero Linux 3 Beta (Linux)

Burn and copy CDs and DVDs, including Blu-ray and HD DVD discs, with Nero Linux 3.

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Wikipedia Releases Offline CD

WikipediaOnDVD, with cooperation with the Wikipedia community, has released its first offline test version. The articles were selected by Wikipedians and reviewed for accuracy, vandalism, and importance.

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Google Releases Improved MySQL Code

Google on Tuesday released new programming code under the GPL license to enhance MySQL databases.

Google uses the MySQL open source relational database internally for some applications that aren't search related. And its engineers are keen to improve the code by making their improvements publicly available.

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FreeBSD UFS2 Problems: Bounty sponsored and formalized by rsync.net

sync.net is pleased to announce Code Bounties for 2007:

http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/2007cb.html

Two of the five bounties are for FreeBSD related projects. Please take note of the "FreeBSD UFS2 problem resolution and standardized UFS2 stress testing" bounty - we encourage you to contribute.

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Vmware 5.5 on FreeBSD: Bounty sponsored and formalized by rsync.net

rsync.net is pleased to announce Code Bounties for 2007:

http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/2007cb.html

Two of the five bounties are for FreeBSD related projects. Please take note of the "Vmware 5.5 on FreeBSD" bounty - we encourage you to contribute.

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Stop Denial of Service attacks

You probably heard before of the term Denial of Service. What does this mean? How can you stop DOS?

How to: Encrypt Your VoIP

As VoIP becomes ever more popular, the security of these systems becomes more of a concern. VoIP can be vulnerable to a number of attacks due to the nature of VoIP calls. In short, VoIP traffic flows across the Internet in unencrypted packets, which means anyone that has access to the network between sender and recipient can intercept these packets — essentially allowing them to create a recording of your conversation. How can you help secure yourself against these types of attacks?

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