Category: OS

Today, OpenBSD is 10 years old!

Very interesting article found on opensolaris.org regarding a comparison of the Solaris|Linux|FreeBSD kernels: Article is here

Today, I started my training week @ Sun Educational Center on “SA-225-S10” (Solaris 10 for Experienced System Administrators) Day #1 was decidated to the solaris zones (nice introduction). The week will be nice… Food is delicious and we have Internet access 😉

# man mount man: not found # man man man: not found Help! 😉

I’ve several Solaris 10 boxes wrongly configured during the setup and the graphical environment was installed… (Gnome, CDE, …) As they’ll be used as servers in a colocation, no need to keep disks full of unwanted files! I quickly googled for an existing script or tool but nothing relevant was

Some useful tips for all Solaris admins… http://sysunconfig.net/unixtips/solaris.html

Interesting article: http://www.improvedsource.com/content/view/13/2/ I’ll see after my next reboot 😉

Fedora Core 4 wa released on 13th June… Time to upgrade! This time, I only burned the DVD iso, playing disk-jockey is too boring 😉 Upgrade was successful (from a FC3) but as usual, small operations need to be performed manually (ex: patching the VMware modules as usual). Good job

Posted today by Theo on openbsd-misc: <quote> From: Theo de Raadt To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: [BSD-Misc] FreeBSD hiding security stuff A few FreeBSD developers apparently have found some security issue of some sort affecting i386 operating systems in some cases. They have refused to give us real details. A promise is

StillSecure, a network security company, connected six computers on the Internet, installed with different OSs such Windows XP, Linux, Mac OS. Installation was done “out-of-the-box” without any patches nor security fix. The Windows XP/SP1 was compromized after 18 minutes (!) and started to launch attacks against other hosts! Read the