A new Linux exploit has been found for Linux machines. This involves the FUSE filesystem framework and can crash Systemd after executing a program as a normal user. This is CVE-2021-33910, Denial of service (stack exhaustion) in Systemd (PID 1). More information about this exploit may be found here: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/20/2….
Read MoreFedora Silverblue is using a very interesting feature. OSTree. This makes the operating system root filesystem read-only and the addition of software to the core operating system is something that can be rolled back at any time. This is rather like a Github repository. The underlying root filesystem is immutable…
Read MoreThere are many Linux distributions that are good alternatives to Ubuntu. This gives you more freedom of choice. Debian Live distribution. This is a nice way to try out some Debian goodness before installing on your system. Find some download links here: https://www.debian.org/CD/live/. Ubuntu is based on Debian anyway, so…
Read MoreThe default installation of Ubuntu uses UTC time instead of local time to maintain the system clock. But this changes the Windows clock to UTC from local time when you reboot and this is very annoying. Run this command to fix this issue. jason@jason-desktop:~$ timedatectl set-local-rtc 1 –adjust-system-clockjason@jason-desktop:~$ timedatectl set-local-rtc…
Read MoreThere is a very nice new Linux distribution that comes with a huge amount of software. It is called PsychOS, this is intended for older machines. The kernel is compiled for a 686 CPU architecture instead of x86_64, but it would be perfect to bring an old Pentium 4 back…
Read MoreTo start the SSH server on a Venom Linux machine, use this command. bash-5.0# /usr/sbin/sshdbash-5.0# /usr/sbin/sshd This will start up the SSH server and then you may connect over SSH to your machine. Edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and make these changes to allow the SSH server to run and allow…
Read MoreListing the installed files for packages installed for Venom Linux is very easy. The scratch command will do this just fine. $ scratch files nano1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26…
Read MoreThere is a very nice Linux distribution available. This is called Venom Linux. This is very fast to boot after installation. In my VMWare instance, it booted in a couple of seconds after pressing enter at the boot screen. This is a live CD distribution with MATE, XFce 4, Lxde…
Read MoreSome popular virtualization solutions The two competing virtualization solutions, VMware and HyperV both allow virtualization to be installed on a server or client machine to allow the creation of virtual machines to test operating systems and/or use spare computing resources to run a virtualized server instance without requiring the user…
Read MoreThis is the best fix for Firefox, this updates you to the new version, and it works a treat. I installed this, and all of my addons are back, even uBlock Origin and Greasemonkey. So the incompetent Mozilla developers only took 9 hours to fix such a simple problem, the…
Read MoreInstalling BeOS on a modern computer. This is a very cool alternative operating system. The screenshot below, shows an Apple II machine connecting to a Debian server over a network connection. This allows the more powerful machine to be administered easily over a remote connection. I wonder if you could…
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