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How To Securely Destroy/Wipe Data On Hard Drives With shred

falko - Wed, 2012-02-22 07:05

Sometimes you need to destroy or wipe data from hard drives (for example, before you sell your old hard drives on eBay) so that nobody else can access them. Simply deleting data (e.g. with rm) is not enough because that just removes the file system pointer, but not the data, so it can easily be undeleted with recovery software. Even zero'ing out your hard drive might not be enough. Here's where shred comes into play - shred can overwrite the files and partitions repeatedly, in order to make it harder for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data.

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Introduction To The Linux Mint Cinnamon Desktop

falko - Tue, 2012-02-21 06:50

This tutorial is supposed to guide the reader through the features of the Cinnamon desktop, Mint's new desktop environment to be used in Linux Mint 13. Cinnamon concentrates on holding on to classic design and functionality in times where Gnome 3 and Unity come up with different innovations to the user interface.

http://www.howtoforge.com/introduction-to-the-linux-mint-cinnamon-desktop

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Debian Project News - February 20th, 2012

IntnsRed - Mon, 2012-02-20 14:37
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The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/
Debian Project News debian-publicity@lists.debian.org
February 20th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/04/
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Welcome to this year's fourth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:

* Goodbye Lenny!
* Debian GNU/Hurd on the rails
* DPL and legal work
* Multiarch-ready dpkg
* GPL in Debian: a study
* Interviews
* Other news
* Upcoming events
* New Debian Contributors
* Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release
* Important Debian Security Advisories
* New and noteworthy packages
* Work-needing packages
* Want to continue reading DPN?

AVG Antivirus For Linux/FreeBSD Plus Sendmail Mail Server

falko - Mon, 2012-02-20 05:51

This document describes how to deploy AVG Antivirus for Linux/FreeBSD to the Sendmail mail server. It is usable for AVG version 8.5, 10 and 2012. By using AVG Antivirus with your Sendmail mail server, you can ensure virus-free inboxes.

http://www.howtoforge.com/avg-antivirus-for-linux-freebsd-plus-sendmail-mail-server

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Debian Position on Software Patents

IntnsRed - Sun, 2012-02-19 14:03
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February 19th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120219
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Debian Position on Software Patents

The Debian Project announces the availability of its [1] patent policy for the Debian archive.

1: http://www.debian.org/legal/patent

The Debian Project maintains a critical stance towards software patents: we consider software patents to be a threat to Free Software and an obstacle to the Debian mission of providing an entirely Free operating system for everyone's use. We believe software patents provide no advantage in promoting software innovation and we encourage our upstream authors to object to software patents.

At the same time, given the de facto possibility of patenting software-related ideas in several countries around the world, it is important to neither underestimate nor overestimate software patent issues. We are particularly concerned about patent FUD and we have worked to improve clarity on the subject.

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