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News: A new Linux-Tip website is born

Monday, 08 June 2009
Linux-Tip Europe is a site designed to provide the Linux users community (not only in Europe) with news and articles that are of interest to them. It works by allowing members of the community to submit news and articles relating to Linux hardware and software. This same community can then decide what tips should be promoted based on what they consider to be the most important or interesting to the community by voting stories up and down. Stories that receive enough votes are promoted to the Linux-Tip Europe homepage.
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Tip: Fedora 11's best five features

Saturday, 30 May 2009
Fedora, Red Hat's community Linux's arrival has been delayed until early next week, June 2, but the release candidate is already looking mighty darn good. I've been using Fedora 11 since the late beta showed up in mid-April, and I've been very impressed. It's fast, it's stable, and it's got a snazzy new look. That said, there's one change that I'm not crazy about, audio control, so let's get that out of the way first.
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Tip: The Perfect Desktop - Mandriva One 2009.1 with GNOME

Friday, 08 May 2009
This tutorial shows how you can set up a Mandriva One 2009.1 desktop (with the GNOME desktop environment) that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
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Tip: Samurai Web Testing Framework

Tuesday, 05 May 2009
The Samurai Web Testing Framework is a live linux environment that has been pre-configured to function as a web pen-testing environment. The CD contains the best of the open source and free tools that focus on testing and attacking websites.
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Network wide Conficker scanning

Wednesday, 01 April 2009
The Conficker worm has infected several million computers since it first started spreading in late 2008. In this paper German developers presented several potential methods to repel Conficker. The approaches presented take advantage of the way Conficker patches infected systems, which can be used to remotely detect a compromised system. They also provided freely available tools including source code on their website. They also described how to use these findings which allows system administrators to quickly and easily scan their networks for infected hosts and to create rules for use in intrusion detection systems. Developers already started to integrate these findings in their network security scanner and equivalent tools like Nmap and Nessus. This article shows how to use four different methods to scan for Conficker infected machines in your network.
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Instant Pictoguide to Knoppix 6.0

Wednesday, 11 March 2009
The latest version of Knoppix represents a radical remake of the venerable Live CD Linux distribution. Knoppix 6.0 is leaner, faster, and more versatile than ever. In addition to that, the new version brings another significant improvement: the amazingly fast boot process. Even when Knoppix runs from a CD, it takes less than a minute to boot to the graphical desktop. More importantly, the improved boot process doesn’t affect Knoppix’ legendary hardware detection capabilities.
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Tip: Blocking IP address of any country with iptables

Thursday, 19 February 2009
This short article shows you how to automatically create iptables rules to block all connection from one country or more. The blocklist is create with an API I wrote and you can use wget to update the blocklist monthly. The API to get the IP addresses to block. First you need to know the code (ISO 3166 format) of the country you would like to block.
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Tip: Cloning Linux Systems With CloneZilla Server Edition (CloneZilla SE)

Tuesday, 27 January 2009
This tutorial shows how you can clone Linux systems with CloneZilla SE. This is useful for copying one Linux installation to multiple computers without losing much time, e.g. in a classroom, or also for creating an image-based backup of a system. I will install CloneZilla SE on a Debian Etch server in this tutorial. The systems that you want to clone can use whatever Linux distribution you prefer.
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Remote access using NX and OpenSuse 11.1

Friday, 16 January 2009
NoMachine NX is a solution for secure remote access, desktop virtualization, and hosted desktop deployment using compression, session resilience and resource management. It integrations a powerful audio, printing and resource sharing capabilities and makes it possible to run any graphical application (e.g KDE, Gnome etc.) across the network connection. The NX Free Edition is easy to install and works on almost all Linux distributions. The following workshop describes the installation and the first run on an OpenSuse 11.1 server.
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