Last week one or more of Red Hat’s servers got cracked. Now, it has been revealed that both Fedora and Red Hat servers have been compromised. As a result Fedora is changing their package signing key. The intruder was able to sign a small number of OpenSSH packages relating only to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (i386 and x86_64 architectures only) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86_64 architecture only). This update has been rated as having critical security impact.
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Great information on how to install Fedora Linux on PS3. In this article, first in a series, Peter Seebach introduces the features and benefits of PS3 Linux, and explains some of the issues that might benefit from a bit of tweaking.
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Linux netconsole kernel module allows dmesg output to be transmitted via the syslogd network. It is kernel-level network logging over udp allowing debugging of problem where disk logging fails and serial consoles are impractical. This is a step-by-step mini howto about netconsole configuration under Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora and Debian Linux.
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Fedora Linux 9 beta has been released and available for download. Some highlights of Fedora 9 Beta: => GNOME 2.22, with new features like a helpful world time clock, better file system performance, security improvements, power management at the login screen, the ability to dynamically configure displays, better Bluetooth integration, improved podcast support, and many [...]
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This may come handy, from the project page: Mk-boot-usb is a perl script to create multiple-bootable usb sticks (usb keys / usb flash drives). It wipes out an entire usb stick, partitions it, creates file systems on it, installs grub, and installs a minimal linux on it. Mk-boot-usb is meant to speed up and lower [...]
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This small guide may come handy… From the article: One great thing about Linux is that you can transplant a hard disk from a machine that runs a 32-bit AMD XP processor into a new 64-bit Intel Core 2 machine, and the Linux installation will continue to work. However, if you do this, you’ll be [...]
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