|
Source: IceWalkers allows you to create, destroy, resize, move and copy hard disk partitions
Source: IceWalkers Linux Kernel
Source: IceWalkers Linux Kernel
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Dazuko provides a device driver allowing 3rd-party (userland) applications to execute file access control. It was originally developed by H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH to allow on-access virus scanning. Other uses include a file-access monitor/logger or external security implementations. It operates by intercepting file access calls and passing the file information to a 3rd-party application. The 3rd-party application then has the opportunity to tell the device driver to allow or deny the file access. The 3rd-party application also receives information about the access event, such as accessed file, type of access, process id, and user id.
Changes:
A minor problem with the Linux 2.6 LSM stacking code has been fixed. Support for the Linux 2.6.11 and 2.6.12-rc1 kernels has been added.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News v9fs provides a Plan 9 9P2000 resource sharing
protocol for the Linux 2.6 kernel. This can be
used to share files, devices, /proc, /sys, etc. It
also works with Plan 9 file servers, and can be
used to mount synthetic file systems from Plan 9
applications (see the plan9port project).
Changes:
Major changes in this release include support for special files (character and block devices, named pipes, socket files, and hard links).
Source: Freshmeat Daily News LineControl allows you to remotely control the Internet connection of a Linux masquerading server using multiple clients. It takes care with the number of clients using the connection and decides upon this number whether the connection should be up or down. The clients show the time the connection is up and throughput statistics. Different connection types are supported, such as analog modems, ISDN, or even cable modems and ADSL devices.
Changes:
A compile bug introduced by MySQL 4.1.x headers has been fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News xMule is a multi-platform clone of the popular eMule client for the eDonkey filesharing network. Currently supporting various Linux/Unix/BSD platforms, it aims at higher stability and portability than the competitors.
Changes:
The result of 6 months of refactoring the 1.9-unstable branch: more fail-safe, less resource-hungry, and generally better-performing than all previous versions. This is a recommended upgrade for all users.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Peace-love-linux is based on IBM's picture used to
advertise some Linux products. It also features
some graphic effects of The GIMP for the tiles and
the menu.
Changes:
A pixmap has been added for the Alt-Tab switch panel available in WindowMaker 0.9.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Kubuntu is a Linux distribution that is based on
Ubuntu. The main difference from standard Ubuntu
is that KDE is used instead of GNOME. Its aim is
to be a great integrated distribution that uses
the full potential of the KDE desktop.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News kf is a small Jabber client for GNU/Linux. It aims
to be both simple and powerful, and is designed
for the advanced user.
Changes:
Message Archive was fixed. The docklet menu is now more functional.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News fwknop is a flexible port knocking implementation
that is based around iptables. Both shared knock
sequences and encrypted knock sequences are
supported. In addition, fwknop makes use of
passive OS fingerprinting signatures derived from
p0f to ensure the OS that initiates a knock
sequence conforms to a specific type. This makes
it possible to allow, say, only Linux systems to
connect to your SSH daemon. Both the knock
sequences and OS fingerprinting are completely
implemented around iptables log messages, and so a
separate packet capture library is not required.
Changes:
IPTables::ChainMgr was added. Fwknop uses this
module to maintain dedicated chains to which
access rules are added. IPTables::Parse was added,
which is used internally by IPTables::ChainMgr.
ALERTING_METHOD was added to allow syslog and/or
email reporting to be disabled.
install_perl_module() was added in install.pl from
psad to provide a consistent installation
interface. Only Perl modules that are not already
installed are now installed. The --last-cmd option
was added to allow fwknop to be executed with
command line arguments from the previous
execution.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News pcmciautils is a suite of userspace tools for
PCMCIA support in the Linux 2.6 kernel.
Changes:
The pcmcia-modalias return string was fixed.
MODALIAS is used instead of MODNAME.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News hdup is used to back up a filesystem. Features include encryption of the archive (mcrypt/GnuPG), compression of the archive (bzip2/gzip/lzop/none), the ability to transfer the archive to a remote host or restoring from a remote host (with SSH), the ability to split up archives, and no obscure archive format (it is a normal compressed tar file).
Changes:
An off-by-one bug was fixed. The Makefile was
changed to include $DESTDIR.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Bastille Linux aims to be the most comprehensive,
flexible, and educational Security Hardening
Program for Red Hat (Fedora Core, Enterprise
Linux, and original Red Hat), SuSE, Gentoo,
Mandrake, and Debian Linux, as well as HP-UX and
Mac OS X. Virtually every task it performs is
optional, providing immense flexibility. It
educates the installing admin regarding the topic
at hand before asking any question. The
interactive nature allows the program to be more
thorough when securing, while the educational
component produces an admin who is less likely to
compromise the increased security.
Changes:
This version fixes a bug where the GUI crashed if
you tried to skip around modules on Red Hat.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News 2-Disk X window embedded Linux is a tiny net-centric Linux that aims at portable secure remote system usage. It contains many utilities including: X Windows, vncviewer, rdesktop, a Web browser, a file manager, a text editor, a terminal, a window manager, a menu system, a dialog system, X scripting facilities, and many others. It aims to work from 1 or 2 floppy disks in any remote location.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade
system for backing up Linux, Win32, and laptops to a
server's disk. Features include clever pooling of identical
files, no client-side software, and a powerful Apache/CGI
user interface.
Changes:
This release fixes several problems.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News The friendly interactive shell is a shell focused
on interactive use, discoverability, and
friendliness. fish has very user-friendly and
powerful tab-completion, including descriptions of
every completion, tab-completion of strings with
wildcards, and many completions for specific
commands. It also has extensive and discoverable
help. A special help command gives access to all
the fish documentation in your Web browser. Other
features include syntax highlighting with extensive error checking, support for the X clipboard, smart terminal handling based on
terminfo, an easy to search, no duplicates
history.
Changes:
This release features a new command (open) for launching
the default handler of a file. Tab completion of files now
displays file descriptions now from the mimetype database.
The jobs command prints CPU activity for jobs (Linux only).
There were lots of documentation improvements. An
occasional hangup in pipes, caused by process group
weirdness, was fixed, as were problems with the Linux
framebuffer and Unicode. The Konsole Home and End keys
bug has been fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News GNU Libidn is an implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode, and IDNA specifications defined by the IETF Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) working group.
It is used to prepare internationalized strings (such as domain name labels, usernames, and passwords) in order to increase the likelihood that string input and string comparison work in ways that make sense for typical users throughout the world. The library contains a generic Stringprep implementation that does Unicode 3.2 NFKC normalization, mapping and prohibition of characters, and bidirectional character handling. Profiles for iSCSI, Kerberos 5, Nameprep, SASL, and XMPP are included. Punycode and ASCII Compatible Encoding (ACE) via IDNA are supported.
Changes:
The cleanup of code to convert data between character sets
was finished, which may fix some (believed non-critical)
memory leaks and an arithmetic overflow.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Ark Linux is a desktop linux distribution that is
aimed primarily at new Linux users. It is intended
to be extremely easy to use while still being
technically sound.
Changes:
All major system components have been upgraded (KDE 3.4,
gcc 3.4.x, glibc 2.3.4, kernel 2.6.11, OpenOffice.org 1.1.4), a
number of bugs have been fixed, and some new features
have been added.
|
