02.How to run Linux and Chrome OS on your Chromebook

When all is said and done you'll have the pleasure of running Linux, Ubuntu 14.04.1 with the Xfce desktop in this case, with Chrome OS simultaneously. Credit: ITworld/Steven. J. Vaughan-Nichols
Love your Chromebook, but want to run Linux programs too? Now you can

Chromebooks are pretty darn handy. Even some hardcoreWindows users now acknowledge that a Chromebook might be just what you need for work. But, as great as Chromebooks are, and as much progress as Google has made in getting "Web-only" apps such as Google Docs to work offline, there are still times that you want an application that's only available off-line such as the LibreOffice office suite or theGIMP photo editor. For those times, it's darn handy to be able to run a Linux desktop on a Chromebook.

It's been possible to do that, thanks to the Chromium OS Universal Chroot Environment (Crouton), for some time. But, what you couldn't do was have a Linux desktop, such as Ubuntu or Debian, on the same screen while you were running Chrome OS.
Now you can.
Thanks to Google's Chrome OS team, you can run a Linux desktop within a window on Chrome OS using a Chrome extension called Crouton Integration. This makes using Linux, and its thousands of applications, much easier. It also adds the ability to use Chrome's inherent Web browser instead of the Linux distribution's native browser and to synchronize the Chrome OS and Linux clipboards.
In short, Crouton is better than ever and the combination of Linux and Chrome OS is very powerful. Here's how you go about liberating that power.



Source:
http://www.itworld.com/article/2891142/how-to-run-linux-and-chrome-os-on-your-chromebook.html

Special Distro : Debian Med

Project description

Debian Med is a "Debian Pure Blend" with the aim to develop Debian into an operating system that is particularly well fit for the requirements for medical practice and biomedical research. The goal of Debian Med is a complete free and open system for all tasks in medical care and research. To achieve this goal Debian Med integrates related free and open source software for medical imaging, bioinformatics, clinic IT infrastructure, and others within Debian OS.

Debian Med contains a set of metapackages that declare dependencies on other Debian packages, and that way the complete system is prepared for solving particular tasks. The best overview about Debian Med is given at the tasks page.

For a more in-depth discussion, several talks about Debian Med and Debian Pure Blends in general are available as slides, partly with video recording.

News

Source:

https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/

Security problems need to be made public: Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds has told a Q&A session at Linux.conf.au that he is a huge believer in disclosing security issues publicly.

Sharing the stage with Bdale Garbee, chairman of the Debian technical committee, Samba author Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell, and kernel contributor Rusty Russell, Torvalds said on Friday that security is a hard problem, and it is satisfying to see more public disclosures

"People are less willing sometimes to brush the problem under the mat, and leave it up to vendors that have disclosures, like infinity long disclosure times," he said. "I'm a huge believer in just disclosing, still somewhat responsibly, but security problems need to be made public -- and there are people who argue, and have argued for decades, that you never want to talk about security problems because that only helps the black hats -- and the fact is that I think you absolutely need to report them, and you need to report them in a reasonable time frame.





Source:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/security-problems-need-to-be-made-public-linus-torvalds/

Updated Debian 7: 7.8 released

The Debian project is pleased to announce the eighth update of its stable distribution Debian 7 (codename wheezy). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories were already published separately and are referenced where available.

Please note that this update does not constitute a new version of Debian 7 but only updates some of the packages included. There is no need to throw away old wheezy CDs or DVDs but only to update via an up-to-date Debian mirror after an installation, to cause any out of date packages to be updated.

Those who frequently install updates from security.debian.org won't have to update many packages and most updates from security.debian.org are included in this update.

New installation media and CD and DVD images containing updated packages will be available soon at the regular locations.

Upgrading to this revision online is usually done by pointing the aptitude (or apt) package tool (see the sources.list(5) manual page) to one of Debian's many FTP or HTTP mirrors. A comprehensive list of mirrors is available at:

https://www.debian.org/mirror/list

Source:

https://www.debian.org/News/2015/20150110

Proxmox Releases Mail Security Platform Based on Debian Linux

Debian Linux doesn't usually make many headlines about commercial software products. But the open source operating system is part of the latest anti-spam and anti-virus platform from Proxmox Server Solutions, which was released this week.

In contrast to Linux distributions like Red Hat (RHT) Enterprise Linux and Canonical'sUbuntu, which cater to the business and government worlds (among others, in Ubuntu's case), Debian is mostly a community-based distribution.

Source:

http://thevarguy.com/open-source-application-software-companies/012115/proxmox-releases-mail-security-platform-based-debian-linu

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Readers' Choice Awards 2014

Best Linux Distribution

Although this year the Debian/Ubuntu-based distros took the lion's share of the votes, the "Best Linux Distribution" category is a bit like "Best Kind of Pizza"—even the bottom of the list is still pizza. It's hard to go wrong with Linux, and the wide variety of votes only proves how many different choices exist in our wonderful Open Source world.


Source:
http://goo.gl/r51Azc

NGINX: Mitigating the BREACH vulnerability

This post serves as a notice regarding the BREACH vulnerability and NGINX.

For Ubuntu, Debian, and the PPA users: If you are on 1.6.2-5 (or 1.7.8 from the PPAs), the default configuration has GZIP compression enabled, which means it does not mitigate BREACH on your sites by default. You need to look into whether you are actually impacted by BREACH, and if you are consider mitigation steps.


Source:
http://dark-net.net/?p=49