|
LXer Feature: 28-Sept-2014
In the Roundup this week we have Netflix finally coming to Linux, 5 reasons why hackers own your organization, how Shellshock works and a lot more. Enjoy!
|
|
Netflix Is Finally Coming To Linux Without The Need For Hacky Tricks: If you’re sitting in the itty-bitty overlapping sliver on the Venn diagram of “People who use Ubuntu” and “People who can’t figure out how to use user agent spoofing and other trickery to make Netflix work on Ubuntu” — good news! Netflix is likely (finally) coming to Ubuntu soon.
How to monitor user login history on CentOS with utmpdump: Keeping, maintaining and analyzing logs (i.e., accounts of events that have happened during a certain period of time or are currently happening) are among the most basic and essential tasks of a Linux system administrator.
How to run Unix Commands in vi/vim editor: There are some scenarios where unix admin wants to run unix commands and insert the output of unix command in vi editor without leaving it.
Why I love Linux — even if I no longer use it: That Netflix is coming to desktop Linux soon is great news. Considering the OS only holds about 1.6 percent of overall desktop marketshare, it's an important moment for those who use Linux in their home lives that Netflix's engineers are even exploring the idea. It's not like they had to, right?
From next release onwards, Debian is tied to systemd: From its next release onwards, Debian users will be forced to use just one init system - systemd. This much is clear from resolutions of the project's Technical Committee.
Bullies in the Machine or Pick On Someone Your Own Size: “Yeah, that’s easy. You just click on the icon you want to put down in the bottom panel, then reboot three times. It’s gotta be three times exactly and you have to do them one right after another real fast. If you wait too long between reboots it won’t work. On the third reboot, it should be there.”
5 reasons why hackers own your organization: Why is cyber hacking so pervasive and so easy to accomplish? Here are five reasons that account for most of the problem.
Should Linux Users Care About Official Netflix Support on Ubuntu?: Netflix may soon offer official support for Ubuntu Linux. But does that really matter now that Netflix has unofficially worked on Linux via Wine for nearly two years?
Bug in Bash shell creates big security hole on anything with *nix in it: A security vulnerability in the GNU Bourne Again Shell (Bash), the command-line shell used in many Linux and Unix operating systems, could leave systems running those operating systems open to exploitation by specially crafted attacks.
Shellshock: How does it actually work?: By now, you’ve probably seen this magic incantation, or variations, sent all around as a quick test for vulnerability to CVE-2014-6271, known as “Shellshock”, because in this post-Heartbleed world, apparently all security flaws will have cute over-dramatic names.
Back to the Source: Why FOSS is More Important Than Ever: We used to take these freedoms for granted with all of our personal property. We can mod our homes, we can buy random items, glue glitter and googly eyes on them and resell them as holiday crafts, we can do anything we want with our own stuff. Except for our digital property. There we run into vast mazy minefields of laws and Digital Rights Management and prohibitions and the idea that we don't own it, but merely license it, so it's not really ours and the vendor has the right to control it, and to control what we do with it. |
