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Wired News: Linux Plus Itanium Equals Whoosh. It’s billed as academia’s fastest supercomputer: an IBM machine using Intel’s Itanium processor running a Linux application that can process 2 trillion calculations per second. Wanna know how gravitational waves work? By Michelle Delio. [Jake Savin: Linux]
Those of you running RedHat servers might want to subscribe to KRUD, Kevin’s RedHat Uber Distribution. Every month you get a CD with all of the latest patches and builds applied. “May 2001 KRUD includes two new utilities for KRUD: krudfind and krud2date. krudfind uses a database of package information to make it easy to find all of the packages you need to install to load a particular service. It will resolve dependencies, download the files, and install them… all in a single pass! No more hunting for which RPM provides an obscure library! krud2date lets you update all of the installed packages on your system, including following all the dependencies, with a single command. ” [Zope Newbie News]
Ultra Small SBC Report. LinuxDevices.com has a report
on the latest ultra small single board computers that are out.
Some are
smaller than credit cards, several fit in DIMM sockets, and all of them
are more powerful and have more memory than my desktop PC had just a
couple of years ago. These boards are based on a variety of CPUs
including the Intel x86, StrongArm, ETRAX, and Motorola PowerPC. If
you’re looking for a new SBC for your next robot, there are a lot of
good ideas here. [robots.net]
Tempest Security Advisory:
Security Flaw with Linux 2.4 Kernel and IPTables [via Slashdot]
Security Advisory – #01/2001
Security flaw in Linux 2.4 IPTables using FTP PORT
Author: Cristiano Lincoln Mattos, CISSP, SSCP
Systems affected: Firewalls using Linux Kernel 2.4.x with IPTables
Release date: 16 April 2001
Platforms: Linux Kernel 2.4.x
Impact: If an attacker can establish an FTP connection passing through a Linux 2.4.x IPTables firewall with the state options allowing “related” connections (almost 100% do), he can insert entries into the firewall’s connection tables…
Ntpd Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability [Security Focus]
No word from Sun or other major Unix vendors, yet.
Evil3d.net: reviews KRUD “So what kind of stuff does KRUD give the user over Red Hat? First and foremost is security. Kevin got tired of having to download so many security updates after a standard Red Hat installation. The next machine over would need the same updates, and so on and so forth. To fix this, Kevin decided to download the updates once and put them into the installation routine. Great amounts of time were saved using this method. So much so, other people liked the idea and KRUD was born. Therefore, if a security patch becomes available for any KRUD package, it will almost certainly be included on the next month’s edition.” I started subscribing this year, and I’m really impressed. Discs arrive around the middle of the month. Everything works. [Zope Newbie News]
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