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In my previous article i've show you Knockd, i've received soem comments regarding the fact that this is NOT at all a good way to secure your server. Well, in my opinion knockd it’s a layer of security, perhaps thin but still can save you from some brute force script and so it adds a bit of security to your solution, in this article i’ll show you fail2ban that add another layer of security to our network services.

This week's Linux Top 5: SCO gets new ownership, Oracle call its quits on OpenOffice as Novell releases last major update for SLES 10, and more.

Mandriva, through Eugeni Dodonov, announced a couple of days ago, April 18th, the immediate availability for testing of the second and last Beta version of the upcoming Mandriva 2011 Linux operating system. This version is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures (see download link at the end of the article).

Smartphones? Not until next yearIntel's president and chief executive Paul Otellini says his company is hard at work porting Google's tablet-specific Android 3.0, aka Honeycomb, to the x86 architecture.…

This tutorial is based on a LAN setup, but it should also be applicable for an Internet seedbox (e.g. on a vps or rootds), but some additional steps may need to be performed (firewall, securing rpc-mount, generally hardening of the server). The best lightweight software combination for a seedbox is lighttpd with rtorrent/libtorrent and a nifty web interface. So we use avalanche-rt, an actively developed project which looks very promising.

The Fedora Project announced the beta release of its Fedora 15 "Lovelock" Linux distribution, featuring the new GNOME 3 desktop, the Systemd initialization system, and a new dynamic firewall feature. Meanwhile, though, GNOME 3 has received mixed reviews from the GNOME faithful, many claiming the project went too far in simplifying the interface....

Gives GNOME a big hugThe Fedora Project has released the first and only beta for their next Linux distro, fully embracing the GNOME desktop that rival Ubuntu will shuffle away from later this month.…

In my case, I wanted to update because I was having a small glitch with my intel graphics related to refreshing of the screen on my Samsung N150P plus netbook. Sometimes I had to switch to a different virtual desktop and come back in order to force the refresh of the whole screen to see things right... and I was tired of it.