Merry Christmas!!

I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. I hope everyone is having a very good time with your loved ones these days.
Enjoy!. 

     

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BlackArch .. a Linux distribution of security and penetration with more than 1,000 tool

After the late death of the Backtrack and some developers went of the distribution to Kali Linux and others have started their own projects .. many security distributions and penetration appeared, today our appointment with the BlackArch distribution, a Linux distribution based on Arch Linux and comes with more than 1,000 tool to protect the free and ready penetration for use directly, making it a good distro for those interested in the field of security information.

Distribution like her mother, is installed via the command line, which also come in several windows system managers like FluxBox, OpenBox and Awesome and Spectrwm, it is very light to reduce consumption, and do not forget, it is based on Arch, which means latest packages and updates.

To download BlackArch or to add to their repository to Arch Linux, see this link.
Have you tried BlackArch before ? How was your experience with it ?

     

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Release of openSUSE 13.2

The community of OpenSUSE distro announced the release of the final version, 13.2 after months of constant development, the new version comes with several updates, such as the Linux kernel 3.16 and GNOME Desktop 3.14, KDE 4.11 and 4.14,XFCE and the latest stable version of LXDE desktop environment.

Btrfs Filesystem has become is the default filesystem in openSUSE 13.2 for the root (/) while XFS is the default filesystem the Home folder (/ home), which is considered a significant change to the level of performance and speed, in fact, also been several improvements made to the package management application of openSUSE so-called "Yast2" such as removing support for GRUB Legacy and focus on supporting the GRUB 2 just as well to restructure Sticky distribution and make it more automatic in the performance of tasks, as well as to improve the formal aesthetic of the overall distribution and update all packets to the latest versions.

Speaking of KDE, Kda plasma 5 became available in the official repositories for anyone who wants to try it, and KDE 3.5 for those who wants to stay on it, GNOME Shell 3.14 is pre-existing and its applications, interface MATE 1.8 is also available official repository, also have been added several scientific applications to their own official repository such as Pythia and Yoda and Cadabra, in addition to many other features.

To download the version of openSUSE 13.2, click here.

     

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The release of the final version of Ubuntu 14.10

After months of continuous development, Ubuntu developers announced release of Ubuntu final release 14.10 of which, the new version did not come with any new features to remember it is just a version carries Last updated packages and bug fixes as well as to provide some additional packages to be installed through the official repositories, is not worth the upgrade to in fact especially as it is not LTS.

The new version came with Linux Kernel 3.16, Firefox and Thunderbird 33, LibreOffice 4.4.3.2, interface Unity 7.3, and the interface MATE becomes available for installation from the official repository and so on for the interface Unity 8, It has also updated the appearance a little bit by a new set of backgrounds for Ubuntu 14.10.

To download the Ubuntu 14.10 Click here.

     

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openSUSE integrated two projects (Tumbleweed and Factory) in one

openSUSE has always been of the distributions that Appeal to me, not for anything, but because they are adaptable and really has a lot of beautiful sub-projects for all categories of users, and one of these projects is the Tumbleweed project. 

Tumbleweed is a special repository for openSUSE that contains the latest available versions of the various packages, designed to the latest software and tools to provide users of this distribution, which is a very popular repository due to the number of packets in which it resides, once added to the distro openSUSE, the distribution is considered a Rolling Release like Arch Linux, now there is another named "Factory" project, a project of the Factory consists of two things: the official developmental versions of distro openSUSE (mean files iso for the project), in addition to the repository, the Factory, which is the other contains the latest developmental versions available from the packages, which also once added to your system, it turns into a rolling distro like Arch Linux (because you will have updates every day). 

The good news today for users of openSUSE is that both projects, Tumbleweed and Factory will merge under the name of Tumbleweed ! This means the unification of efforts in order to create a single repository contains the latest packages, programs and tools to be a good choice for anyone who wants openSUSE distro and be rolling at the same time, will also be the launch name "Tumbleweed Release" on the developmental versions name of the distro openSUSE, starting from 4 November 2014 the Factory repository will be re-directed automatically to the Tumbleweed repositories to be the merger process. 

Incidentally, the version of openSUSE 13.2 will be launched after 8 days, to follow the news here's the official website of the distribution : https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:13.2

     

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What is MAC Address ? And how to change it on Linux ?

Mac is a physic Address of media connected to the Internet or a local network, such as a network card, modem, network switches and hubs, Bluetooth, Ethernet, and wifi, and other ...

The mac address is in this format :

- MM:MM:MM:SS:SS:SS 

There are many ways to find out your mac address of your devices either by going to network-manager(very easy).

but I will show you how, using macchanger (install it first).

type this command :

macchanger wgp0s96f0u1 --show

The red one is name of your interface. replace that red one with yours.

To change the mac address :

sudo macchanger wgp0s96f0u1 --mac=00:53:17:b5:ad:cc 

Don't forget to change the red ones, change that mac address to the one you like. 

     

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Start in Linux server management with DigitalOcean

Linux server management is extremely broad, and it is demanded by many companies in recent times, The director of the server is the person responsible for follow-up all his affairs from the ground up and has a wide range of disciplines, it would be good for you as a user to learn a few basic things about managing Linux servers, and today you will learn about DigitalOcean company.

DigitalOcean is one of the leading companies in the field of the VPS servers running Linux, the company offers a lot of features at a bargain price too - just $ 5 a month - as well as the quality of the service, some features include :

Traffic 1 terabyte per month.
20 GB SSD type of space, which means more speed.
512 megabytes of random access memory RAM.
Possibility to install most Linux distributions with a push of a button.
Possibility to make backups and recovery process easily.
Easy and practical control Panel to help to help you with your business.
Many other features.

You can register in DigitalOcean from the following link, once you register, you'll get a free $ 10 credited, is it sufficient for two months in case you choose the first plan.

Also one of the interesting features of DigitalOcean is the presence of a large amount of documentation about Linux server management, you can review all these documents from the following link: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials 

Have you tried DigitalOcean ? How was your experience ?

     

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bash vulnerability - shellshock

The bash vulnerability which Was discovered weeks before . has already been fixed so rapidly, and the most interesting thing is that no matter how the serious bug is all developers tried fix the bug. Everyone using Bash has the freedom to download, inspect, and modify the code -- unlike with Microsoft, Apple, or other proprietary software.

The bug, which is being referred to as "shellshock," can allow, in some circumstances, attackers to remotely access and control systems using Bash (and programs that call Bash).

     

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Netflix on Linux

Netflix now works on Linux with no Wine tricks required. All it takes to start watching Netflix on Linux right now is Google Chrome and a quick user agent tweak, and soon won’t be necessary.

But for now we have to do some tweaks to make it works.

What we need to play Netflix on Linux

- Having the last Google chrome

- NSS 3.16.2 or greater

- Hacking The user Agent by installing and using this extension : "User-Agent Switcher" and pasting these text lines as you see in the image bellow :

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2114.2 Safari/537.36

Soon It will not require any tweaking and we will get rid of this extension, so we can watch Netflix without any complications.

     

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MICRO FOCUS buy ATTACHMATE the owner of SUSE LINUX

Nearly two years ago, Attachmate Group announced the acquisition of Novell, sponsors SUSE Linux distro (latter supports the distribution openSUSE) compared to 2.2 billion dollars (and before that, bought Novell SUSE Linux in 2003, compared with 140 million dollars), everything went just fine and did not no change regarding SUSE and openSUSE, as you know, it's the Business.

Now and in the news again, Mirco Focus announced  for the acquisition of Attachmate Group for 2.3 billion dollars and therefore are acquired also projects Novell and SUSE Linux, the new company is a software company based in Britain - London, aims through the process to purchase these to provide products and related services for the Linux system and the field of hosting generally serve the objectives of the company.

Nils Brauckmann general manager of the SUSE Linux calls openSUSE Society , and said :

It is the Business as usual: no changes planned for the structural project SUSE or its administration, as there is no need to take any action by the community openSUSE as a result of this announcement, SUSE will continue to contribute to the open source community and will continue to list the projects in the field of business, and will remain supportive of the openSUSE project and society.

The situation will remain as it was with Suse and Opensuse .. the latest version of openSUSE (13.1) is very mature and you can download it from here.

     

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Disclosure of default backgrounds for Ubuntu 14.10

Ubuntu 14.10 is still under development, but they are approaching the date of the official launch, following this, it was revealed backgrounds default which will be present in Ubuntu 14.10 after it was a competition for the selection of these backgrounds participated in more than 400 different picture, these are the backgrounds winner:

But you can download them all as a compressed file from this link.

     

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Linux AIO

The Ubuntu AIO which symbolize to All In One and it contains Ubuntu and all its flavours collected into one iso, project has extended and it is now called Linux AIO and it contains Ubuntu AIO ISO, Linux Mint AIO ISO, Linux Mint Debian AIO ISO and Debian Live AIO ISO. You can find new releases and more details on linuxaio.net.

The Download page from here.

     

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Ubuntu Launcher : Absolute Unity flavor to the Android system

Ubuntu Launcher is a Launcher which provides a Unity interface experience for Android devices, the application is characterized by its shape, similar to the interface of hand sidebar and absolute applications as it met for the adaptation and customization is extremely and other features, the software is still in its pilot phase and is expected to face a number of faults, but they certainly experience distinctive.

You can download the application via the Google Play store from here.
By the way the application is open source and you can download the source code from here.

Have you tried it ? What do you think of it ?

     

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Simply Change the Home page in Firefox

Without Going to Preferences then General and then change the Home page.

In this step, all you need is to go to the website you want to make it the Home page and grab the Tab to the Home icon like the images show :

and this message will appear, click yes

     

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DEBIAN celebrates its twenty birthday

Debian celebrate its project over 21 years to its inception, making it one of the oldest open source projects in existence.

Debian is one of the most widely used Linux distributions around the world, and the most famous distributions based on them, and on top of Ubuntu, the Debian Linux distribution is more stable and stable at all so it described as "the rock."

We also know that Valve has created its own operating system for games SteamOS which is based on Debian, and this is evidence of the power of this distribution, which made ​​them the choice despite the presence of dozens of famous distributions.

Interestingly, the new policy is pursued by the developers of the project, as it will provide 6 years of support for Debian Wheezy, is likely to apply the policy on future versions as well.

Do you use Debian ?

     

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Tip : make VLC running automatically full screen

VLC media player is strong and supports a lot of video formats, and in this quick tip we will explain how you can make VLC automatically and directly run video in Full Screen mode .

Open the program, click on the Tools list in the top bar of the program, and then click on Preferences, open the Settings window, click on the Video tab and then place the tick on the option fullscreen as the following image shows :

     

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Top 10 Programming Code Editors for Linux

Programmers have common and known term called IDE ( Integrated Development Environment ), or the so-called script editor that helps you write the code, built, operated, organized and assist ; Here are the top 10 Programming Text Editor for Linux

1 . Komodo

Komodo is the Excellent IDE built on the Mozilla project the famous Komodo supports many programming languages ​​famous such as Perl, Python , PHP , C \ C + +, Ruby , JavaScript , TCL, CSS, HTML, XML, RHTM; Komodo has all features that you need and he has a very good interface and easy to use , but it is not free , but you can always get a free copy of the open source project through openkomodo.

2 . Eclipse

Eclipse is Celebrity editor for Java programmers with advanced features , also supports Python C \ C + +, it uses plugins, it is desirable for beginners , but it is an excellent option for advanced .

3 . CodeBlocks

Codeboks is a very good Editor, special for C \ C + + languages (you can use the Python by adding certain plugin) ; it includes everything you need for C and C + + , such as gtk and qt It supports more than an interpreter, it is the best option for C \ C + + programmers .

4 . NetBeans

Netbeans is a production of Sun, free and open source written using Java, It is known to be an excellent option for programmers of Java and graphical interfaces for Java , but also supports C \ C + +, Python , Ruby , Javascript , PHP , the only problem it is that it is not intended well .

5 . Geany

Geany editor is very lightweight and it supports C and Python and Perl and Pascal and Java ruby PHP and HTML , it's a small editor in size and very simple .

6 . Codelite

Codelite is a strong editor and open source dedicated to C \ C + + programmers, it resembles Codebloks in many ways, but with fewer features and supports syntax for other languages ​​.

7 . MonoDevelop

MonoDevelop editor is primarily designed for C # language and the NET languages ; Mono enables developers to quickly create software desktop and asp.net, Mono enables developers to easily port NET applications that you have created using Visual Studio to Linux and to maintain the abstract code.

8 . Anjuta

Anjuta editor is flexible software dedicated C \ C + + on GNU \ Linux , it is designed specifically for the GNOME \ GTK and includes a number of advanced programming facilities , it also has the glade / gnome GUI designer / code generator, it is dedicated to the Linux system .

9 . KDevelop

KDevelop fully supports the following languages ​​: C \ C + +, Ruby , PHP , and is often used on the front of KDE and QT environment and many of its users has turned to QTCreator without forgetting that there are a number of KDevelop lovers .

10 . Gedit

Gedit is not originally IDE but it is originally a text editor , but a few additions to it becomes able to be an IDE and supports many languages.

What is your comment about this list ? What is the best IDE for you ?

     

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Turin, Italian city will provide eight million dollars when moving to Linux

State behind the state .. and the city behind the city .. turn to the world of open source, last of these is the city of Turin of Italy, which announced its intention to convert to open-source, to Ubuntu distro precisely, which will gradually convert more than 8300 computer from the Windows system and software closed to Ubuntu and free software, it is expected that the process takes a year and a half to be completed.

If the city remained on Windows and Microsoft Office .. had to pay about $ 29.5 million over five years, but with the transition to free software, it will pay only 21.4 million dollars .. which means providing more than 8 million dollars and this at the level of only one city in 8300 a computer belonging to the local authorities, and that this amount will be reduced too at the end of training sessions for staff and workshops and transport operations for the first time, then will become employees are able on their own to manage devices and run and will not return there are high costs and there is no annual amounts to be paid as in the past.

It is expected that Turin will become the first Italian city fully transmitted to the Free Software and Linux system .. In the case of the experiment succeeds, it is expected to continue to shift to the movements of free software in several other cities in Italy.

     

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Valencia Schools provide 50 million dollars due to LINUX

Valencia is located east of Spain and the largest city in the country, announced that its schools have been transformed into Linux, specifically to the Lliurex distribution created by Spain for those schools, which is based on the Edubuntu educational distribution, and Lliurex is used in more than 110 thousand computer teachers.

The process of transmission of Valencia Schools for Linux to save about 36 million euros (equivalent to approximately $ 50 million) over the past nine years.

Lliurex distribution is managed by the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration; during the installation process, users can choose between several options differ in their suitability for use, there is an option for use in schools or homes, and another for small and medium-sized businesses. The Lliurex and one of the many free software projects in the autonomous region of Valencia, Spain.

Instead, there are about more than 120 thousand desktop computers in Valencia which uses LibreOffice including schools, courts, and have the government said last year that the use of LibreOffice will help provide 1.5 million euros a year (the equivalent of nearly two million dollars) .

Not only this, there is also another area in western Spain called "Extremadura", which also uses her own Linux distribution called linex installed on more than 70 thousand computer teachers in the region.

     

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