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January 2009, #177
It's a battle as old as time: good vs. evil. Fortunately, Linux and FOSS are on our side as we wage the battle against those who try to steal our secrets and invade our systems.
Checking your system's security is best done sooner rather than later. Test the locks with our article on security verification; find out how to use PAM to help secure your systems; use MinorFS and AppArmor to implement discretionary access control; learn more about Samba security in part III of our series; use Darknet to help detect bots and secure your systems; use the Yubikey to increase your site's security; and don't forget to lock the doors, because a cold boot attack could render your security useless if somebody has physical access to your computer.
But, we're not just about sowing the seeds of fear. We also show you how to use memcached in Rails, how to manage multiple servers efficiently, how to deploy applications easily with Capistrano, how to manage your videos with MythVideo, how to mix it up a bit (your audio that is), and even play a few games.
I am not sure to say that a
On May 30th, 2008 Kamen (not verified) says:
I am not sure to say that a regular or even power user will be comfortable to at this point have a Linux system in their room.
The other day, I decided to upgrade nvidia drivers on some kubuntu system. On a Windows system, it is usually a straightforward process - download the drivers from nvidia's site, and run the installer. Even a novice user can do that with minimal instructions.
However, this is what happened:
- I had to get out of X
- I had to run the installer with sudo.
- I had to answer some odd questions because some things were missing on my system.
- System booted into kubuntu logo and froze at the point where it was supposed to run xdm.
- I had to ctrl-alt-backspace to try diagnose the problem.
- I had to dig forums to find instructions on what to do to work around the issue.
- I had to modify some odd ubuntu config files to allow the driver to load properly.
Now tell me if even a Power user would be comfortable doing something like this? What if they bought a USB dongle and had to deal with BlueZ?
From a working system perspective Linux is quite capable of replacing Windows, but if something doesn't work, you are in big trouble!