Major Linux Vulnerability: Debian PRNG

Two days ago this vulnerability was released: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1571
Luciano Bello discovered that the random number generator in Debian’s openssl package is predictable. This is caused by an incorrect Debian-specific change to the openssl package (CVE-2008-0166). As a result, cryptographic key material may be guessable.
This is a Debian-specific vulnerability which does not affect other operating systems which [...]

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Why Linux Filesystems Don’t Need To Be Defragmented

Saw this on Digg and it’s a great layman’s explanation so I thought it worth mentioning here. Obviously “Linux” isn’t a filesystem, it’s an OS. However, one of the things that some people notice when they use most versions of Linux is that there isn’t a defrag tool like there is with Windows. While unlikely, [...]

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