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German Government Desktop Unveiled |
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Saturday, 10 July 2004 |
During LinuxTag 2004 the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) and the company credativ unveiled the Linux Government Desktop. The Linux Goverment Desktop has been developed within the scope of the project ERPOSS which evaluates Open Source Software in government environments.
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Tip: Astaro Firewall ASL5 free for home users |
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Saturday, 10 July 2004 |
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Astaro provides six essential security applications in one easy-to-manage package that protects organizations from hackers, viruses, worms, spam and other threats to security and productivity. Astaro Security Linux offers firewall, intrusion protection, virus protection, spam protection, VPN gateway, and URL filtering capabilities. A unified management platform makes it easy to deploy, administer, and update a complete network security solution with surprisingly little cost and effort. The software can be installed on a standard Intel PC, or purchased pre-installed on a variety of security appliances. Based on the best of open source security software, Astaro Security Linux has won numerous awards, and is in use on over 20,000 networks in 60 countries. |
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Saturday, 10 July 2004 |
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Vidalinux is a promising new GNU/Linux distribution based on Gentoo Linux and developed in Puerto Rico. It's currently in beta pending the first release -- and as such is full of bugs and problems. However, there's a bright future for this distro with its OS X-like GNOME interface and the new graphical front end for Gentoo's Portage system, Porthole. |
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French Ministry of Equipment chooses Mandrakesoft |
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Saturday, 10 July 2004 |
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Moreno Valley,
California; Paris, France; July 9th, 2004 - The French Ministry of
Equipment's migration to Linux project is replacing 1,500 office and
infrastructure Microsoft Windows NT servers with Mandrakelinux
Corporate servers. Mandrakesoft, the premier European Linux player, was
also chosen for deployment, training and support for its Linux
solution. The
French Ministry of Equipment has approximately 100,000 agents, located
throughout France, in several services: central administration, local
administration, technical services and navigation services. With 160
remote locations, including 102 local administrations, the Ministry's
IT infrastructure is composed of more than 60,000 workstations and
2,000 Microsoft Windows NT servers near end of useful life. |
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Trick: Automate backups on Linux |
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Saturday, 10 July 2004 |
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The loss of critical data can prove devastating. Still, millions of professionals ignore backing up their data. While individual reasons vary, one of the most common explanations is that performing routine backups can be a real chore. Because machines excel at mundane and repetitive tasks, the key to reducing the inherent drudgery and the natural human tendency for procrastination, is to automate the backup process. If you use Linux, you already have access to extremely powerful tools for creating custom backup solutions. The solutions in this article can help you perform simple to more advanced and secure network backups using open source tools that are part of nearly every Linux distribution.
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Trick: Remote backup using ssh, tar and cron |
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Saturday, 10 July 2004 |
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Are you looking for a solution to backup your data to a remote location? While a solid backup solution such as Arkeia or TSM from IBM are nice from an enterprise point of view, simpler solutions are available from a home user's perspective. I will walk you through on you how you can backup your data to a remote server, using the default tools available on all linux systems. In a nutshell, we will use ssh capabilities to allow a cron job to transfer a tarball from you local machine to a remote machine.
For the purpose of this tutorial, the local machine will be called “localmachine” (running slackware) and the remote server will be called “remoteserver” (slackware as well). The user will be joe (me). You will have to substitute those 3 with your own machines names and user.
Read more at Mad Penguin
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