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Dual-boot Windows 7, Linux Mint Debian Edition 2 on a PC with UEFI firmware

  • LinuxBSDos; By finid (Posted by finid on Apr 13, 2015 1:46 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
In this tutorial, you’ll read how to dual-boot LMDE 2, the latest release, and Windows 7 on a computer with UEFI firmware.

SSLMate: Buy and install DV SSL certificates from the command line

While Let’s Encrypt will be free when it’s ready for production, SSLMate is not free. What it does bring to the table is it automates and takes away the tedium in buy, installing and renewing SSL certificates. And all that is done from the command line. This video demonstrates the entire process.

6 operating systems designed just for Docker and other container runtimes

  • LinuxBSDos; By finid (Posted by finid on Apr 4, 2015 7:05 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
So far, I’ve been able to identify just six of such container-native operating systems, as they are called, but trust me, there will be many more to come.

Android on a Stick, or how to install Android-x86 on a USB stick

The latest stable release is Android-x86 4.4-r2. This tutorial shows how to install it on a USB stick, so you can have an Android device that you can boot and use from any modern computer.

How to reset user password on Ubuntu 14.10

So this tutorial will show how to reset a password on Ubuntu Desktop 14.10. It should also work on earlier editions, like Ubuntu 14.04, and even on the upcoming Ubuntu 15.04.

How to reset passwords on Fedora 21 and 22

  • LinuxBSDos; By finid (Posted by finid on Mar 19, 2015 5:31 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
Thanks to a very strict password policy and one too many passwords to remember, I managed to forget both the root and user account passwords of a test Fedora 21 installation.

Triple-boot Windows 7, Linux Mint 17.1, Kali 1.1 on a PC with UEFI firmware

How To Get From Here To There: To accomplish this task of triple-booting Windows 7 (or Windows 8), Linux Mint 17.1, and Kali Linux 1.1 on a single hard drive and on a computer with UEFI firmware, you, of course, must have access to a Windows 7 (or Windows 8) computer that you have permission to use. My test computer is a self-built desktop, but the steps should also work on an OEM (store-bought) laptop or desktop.

Anaconda on root and user account password strengths: Why so strict?

  • LinuxBSDos; By finid (Posted by finid on Mar 12, 2015 12:12 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Anaconda will not accept a password that’s less than seven characters. And no, a password that’s the same as the username, even if it’s more than seven characters, will not fly. If it contains the username in some form, that won’t fly too. In fact, if it’s deemed weak, Anaconda will not let you go past that step.

How to install Prey on Linux Mint 17.1

If Prey is news to you, read the introduction at How to integrate Prey into the security posture of your Linux PC, then create a free account at preyproject.com. The rest of this tutorial will show how to install and manage it on Linux Mint 17.1.

How to integrate Prey into the security posture of your Linux PC

The other option is to install Prey and still encrypt the disk, so that in the unlikely event the disk is decrypted without the configured passphrase, Prey will be able to call home and hopefully, help you recover the unit. If you go this route, remember to also have a backup system in place. You can’t lose your data by backing it up.

5 awesome security features to expect in PC-BSD 10.1.2

Five of those security and security-related features were announced today and are on track to be included in the next edition, which should be PC-BSD 10.1.2.

What’s cooking at Kismatic?

  • LinuxBSDos; By finid (Posted by finid on Mar 6, 2015 2:34 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
No answer to that on the website and even the GitHub page doesn’t tell you anything about the project. That GitHub page shows two repositories: One is a fork of an existing project, while the other (Karakal) is a shell repository. It only has a README.md file.

How to delete Superfish from Lenovo computers permanently

  • LinuxBSDos; By finid (Posted by finid on Feb 23, 2015 10:58 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
Owners of Lenovo computers are, therefore, not the only folks at risk of man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks. So exchanging your Lenovo computer for another Windows brand won’t do you much good.

A real solution, a final solution, is one that does not involve the parties that caused the problem in the first place. And that solution is this:

For an editor, Atom uses way too much RAM

As much as I love using it, Atom is a memory hug. Used long enough, it will be using up more RAM than Firefox.

What I can say about KDE Plasma 5 that I can’t say about Windows 8

  • LinuxBSDos; By finid (Posted by finid on Feb 12, 2015 3:29 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
Playing with my test installation of KaOS Release Candidate has allowed me to appreciate how good KDE Plasma 5 really is. The release candidate of KaOS that I installed does not have all the pieces of KDE Plasma 5 in place yet, but the ones that are very, very good. Even in a virtual environment, KDE Plasma 5 is as smooth as silk.

Getting to know the pkg audit command on PC-BSD and FreeBSD

  • LinuxBSDos; By finid (Posted by finid on Feb 11, 2015 5:53 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
Pkg is that package manager and one of the its many commands I think you should get to know asap is the audit command. It’s used to audit installed packages against known vulnerabilities.

PC-BSD 10.1.1 Cinnamon review

An installation of the Cinnamon desktop, which shipped with Cinnamon 2.2, was especially bad. Out of the box, it was unusable. When PC-BSD 10.1.1 was released (on February 2 2015), I knew I had to take another look at a Cinnamon installation.

MIPS Creator C120 development board and Debian 7

Back in December 2014 I won a Creator C120 single board computer from Imagination Technologies, a technology outfit based in Hertfordshire (UK). The Creator C120 is a development board for Linux and Android. It’s powered by a dual-core MIPS32 CPU (1.2 GHz) and a PowerVR SGX540 GPU and comes pre-loaded with Debian 7.

Ubuntu Core to bring Snappy and transactional updates to the Cloud

  • LinuxBSDos; By finid (Posted by finid on Dec 10, 2014 11:13 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Ubuntu Core and Snappy bring a different angle to Linux Containers, one of the most popular areas of information technology.

How to upgrade Ubuntu 14.10 kernel to version 3.17.1

  • LinuxBSDos; By finid (Posted by finid on Dec 8, 2014 3:57 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
That’s the gist of this tutorial – how I upgraded the kernel in Ubuntu 14.10 from 3.16 to 3.17.1. It’s a very simple task, but one that can cause a minor headache – if you’re using some fancy hardware that requires special drivers.

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