Tiny Core Linux v2.8 was just released. Here is an excerpt of the target, or theme of this release:
The theme for this release is to have a single directory for extensions and dependencies. This greatly improves systems resources by having a single copy of dependencies, also greatly improves flexibility in “moving” applications present upon boot, dependency auditing, and both batch and selective updating.
You can [ continue reading... ]

Here’s an explination of what “BackTrack Linux” is from backtrack-linux.com
Here are some screenshots of an installation I did into VirtualBox.
I’ll give more tutorials on using BackTrack Linux when I get it installed on a different machine, to do actual penetration and not from a VirtualBox machine.
Boot to the CD and you’ll be greeted with this grub screen. I chose to log into the [ continue reading... ]

The Amarok team proudly announced yesterday that Amarok 2.2.2 has been released. Only 2 months after the release of 2.2.1 and a few weeks after a beta release that was seen in December.
The 2.2.2 release focused mainly on UI, and bug fixes. It did however have it’s share of new features which include the Moodbar, custom labeling, podcast improvements and simplifying the editing of [ continue reading... ]

The openSUSE Build Service repository for OpenOffice Unstable has received OpenOffice.org 3.2.0, build 9319. I’m not sure if this is the final build from OpenOffice.org, as their release schedule doesn’t have a final target date for 3.2 release, due to the Holiday’s.
But the above package is available, and I’ve installed and it’s working very well.
Major Features and Moto from OpenOffice.org:
release motto “Performance”
QA tracked
Performance improvements

OpenOffice.org startup [ continue reading... ]

I decided to check out the different Windows Switching options in KDE 4, and decided I’d give a little preview of the 5 different methods which are:
No EffectBox SwitchPresent WindowsCover SwitchFlip Switch
I found my favorite to be “Cover Switch” for some unknown reason.
Here’s a screenshot of each one (Minus the No Effect):

These are configured in systemsettings under “Effects for window switching as shown [ continue reading... ]

Do you do it? Is the process automated? What updates do you apply?
So recently a discussion came of patching some Linux servers in the enterprise with some Unix administrators. Their stance was “we don’t patch our servers, unless there is a reason to upgrade the version for application compatibility”.
I found this compelling as many of the updates pushed out are related to vulnerabilities which have [ continue reading... ]

Here’s a walk through of the Linux Mint 8 Helena. You’ll notice a ton of similarities between the installation process of Linux Mint 8 and the base it’s built from Ubuntu.
The distribution in this walk through is Linux Mint 8 Main Edition, which is bundled with non-free software, which may make some of the debianites cringe. However, the Mint crew also produces another version [ continue reading... ]

Here’s another visual walkthrough of an installation. This time of Arch Linux Core (Core has all the base packages on CD and you have the option for a network, or cd install), which is typically for the more advanced Linux users.
I’m not going to commentate per screenshot because well, it’d take me FOREVER. I’ll do a few though, and hope I don’t get [ continue reading... ]

I went ahead and just did a quick screenshot walk through of installing Ubuntu 9.10, and some possible points of interest for anyone that may need help understanding the steps.
So here we start:
I am going to assume you know how to download and burn an ISO to a CD, so I will not walk through that process. Once you insert the CD into the drive, [ continue reading... ]

Sun Microsystem is holding a webinar for the latest release of VirtualBox 3.1 titled, What’s New in 3.1.
Slated for the Webinar is:

Teleportation
Speedups
Snapshots 2.0
Live demo

You can register at the link below:
https://dct.sun.com/dct/forms/reg_us_0712_490_0.jsp

Today Google has annonced that Google Chrome is now in Beta for Linux thanks to the continued work and testing from the Chromium Project.
You can see a funny comic about the release which was inspired by xkcd.com here:
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/w00t.html
You can download the .deb and .rpm packages from:
http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?hl=en&brand=CHFK
And the main google chrome page can be found here:
http://www.google.com/chrome?hl=en&platform=linux&brand=CHFK
Here is their official statement via e-mail:
Great job to all those [ continue reading... ]

Ok,
I have to admit when I first thought or heard of this feature in KDE 4.4, I wasn’t really excited. I thought.. now why the hell would I want that.
Then I started using it.. and found quite a few usage scenario’s for it.
The first one, I realized right after I launched my VirtualBox. I had always hated how VirtualBox had a separate [ continue reading... ]

On Dec 1st, Nokia released QT 4.6.
The major new improvements are: (from nokia’s website)
Here’s a little video of the Hand Gestures:

Do you think QT will be the cross platform IDE of choice in the future? I believe it’s development speed, and improvements could catapult it to being the leading platform in Mobile Devices, and could possibly form Windows to be usable.

I’ve been reading a story about the Dell Latitude E6500 BIOS and possible over throttling during normal operating conditions, and decided to upgrade my BIOS. Although this task for windows users is pretty straight forward (you download the .EXE binary, and run it). However, with Linux we don’t run the .EXE binary natively.
So our option is to create a FreeDOS Bootable USB, to boot [ continue reading... ]

From X.org:
Release notes, changelogs, downloads, etc. are available at http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/
Features Added/Enhanced
Xserver build no longer needs to symlink to Mesa sources
MPX: Multi-Pointer X (PeterHutterer)
E-EDID support (AdamJackson)
Input device properties (PeterHutterer)
predictable pointer acceleration (SimonThum)
xorg-server 1.7.0
Add SELinux security module which uses XACE (EamonWalsh).
RandR 1.3 (KeithPackard)
Features Removed
X server libraries: cfb, afb, mfb/xf1bpp
X server support for obsolete/unused/broken/unmaintained extensions: AppGroup, EVI, MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD, TOG-CUP, XTrap, XFree86-Misc, XEvIE
X server command line flags: [ continue reading... ]