TimburyDotOrg is owned and operated by Timbury Computer Services. For over ten years, Timbury Computer Services has shown home, small business and corporate clients how to use Linux and Open Source software to maximize efficiency and lower costs.Phoronix: “Last week marked the release of the Ubuntu 9.04 Beta and this week there is the planned release of the Fedora 11 Beta. Both distributions are similar in the respect they will be upgrading several common packages like GNOME 2.26, but in Fedora 11 are more upstream (and experimental) bits like kernel mode-setting, the EXT4 file-system by default, and various other features.”
This communication provides additional information on the Fedora infrastructure intrusion first reported on August 14, 2008. In part this communication reiterates information provided in previous announcements.
[Includes a fairly detailed timeline of the incident.--gus3]
Egerstad and I had concluded at the time that someone had likely infected computers belonging to embassy workers and human rights groups and was using Tor to anonymously transmit data that was being stolen from the computers. He’d inadvertently scooped up the stolen data as it was transmitting from the infected computers to another location. Threat Level contacted a number of embassy and rights groups in China to notify them at the time that their computers were being spied on, but none of the groups responded. It seems clear now that Egerstad had tapped into data that was being stolen by GhostNet.
The Linux Foundation welcomed its newest member today, the European-based free and open source standards consulting firm, credativ. This new partnership is a particularly exciting one, thanks to credativ’s presence in the United Kingdom, Germany and Canada, and its focus on creating and implementing standards. Naturally, credativ’s business — providing consulting and support services to businesses using free and open source software — means it will take an active role in the Linux Standard Base workgroup. Because credativ is one of Europe’s largest employers of Debian developers, the company also plans to participate in the Desktop Linux workgroup.
Netstat -vat: “From the ‘tonight we dine on Linux’ files:
Red Hat’s Fedora community Linux distribution is out today with its first beta for the Fedora 11 -codenamed Leonidas – release.”
LaptopLogic: “Defining the best Linux distros is like defining the best car–one does not exist; instead, the best cars are the ones that meet your needs, and your needs may vary wildly from the needs of another person.”
OpenOffice.org Ninja: “It’s time for an OpenOffice.org benchmark rematch. Go-oo has been proudly boasting it is “Better, Faster, Freer,” but last time when we tested OpenOffice.org 2.4, Go-oo came in fourth place out of four. Since then Go-oo developers addressed some problems, and now we’re checking a new version 3.0 and adding benchmarks on Windows.”
IT Wire: “Here is a “safe from Conficker” e-mail for Microsoft Windows infrastructures, ready to use (with appropriate modification.) Turn over for Linux and MacOS variations.”
Netstat -vat: “JBoss CTO Sacha Labourey is leaving Red Hat. Labourey had been at JBoss for the past eight years, nearly three of which were under Red Hat’s ownership. Labourey’s departure comes over two years after JBoss founder Marc Fleury left Red Hat in 2007.”
Detector Pro: “You can download and install the new Ardour 2.8 in Ubuntu with single click from getdeb.net…”
