In episode 4 of this series, Mark Cox–team lead for the Red Hat Security Response Team–talks more about security.
Previous episodes:
Since its debut in March of 2001, Mac OS® X® has been a very attractive operating system for many Linux® and Unix™ enthusiasts. The operating system brings the interface design Apple is known for to Unix and builds on the previous efforts of A/UX® and especially NeXT®. This article will introduce the reader to a technique for configuring a Fedora® 8 server and corresponding workstation running Mac OS X Tiger (10.4). I will discuss ways to provide three key services: authorization, authentication, and file sharing. » Read more
Contributed by Steve Bonneville
The yum-security package is a new feature of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 update. If installed, the yum module provided by this package can be used to limit yum to retrieve only security-related updates. It can also be used to provide information about which Red Hat advisory, bug in Red Hat’s Bugzilla database, or CVE number from MITRE’s Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures directory is addressed by a package update. » Read more
Release Found: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
In the second of a three-part series, Alan Cox talks about community and the enterprise. See the first episode.
This is in response to a thread from fedora-devel-list. You can read the relevant post in the redhat.com mailing list archives.
Many people claim that “Linux is about choice!”. That’s a neat phrase, but what does it mean? Does it mean that you should have the ability to twist and turn 400 different knobs on your Linux install? That’s what some think. Does it mean that you have the right to choose Linux, or choose your flavor of Linux, and then choose from the package sets within those flavors? That’s what I and many others think. There is a very distinct difference here too. Let’s look at it from a food point of view (one of my favorite points-of-view). » Read more
From Friday, Jan. 11 through Sunday, Jan. 13, the Fedora Project will be holding its annual FUDCon at Red Hat’s headquarters in Raleigh, NC.
FUDCon is the Fedora Users and Developers Conference–a time when members of the Fedora community who usually only communicate via email or IRC have a chance to meet in person. FUDCon includes two full days of hackfests, in which specific technical problems are worked on in small group code sprints, as well as one day of talks, sessions, and presentations that are of interest to all variety of users and developers. » Read more
