Monday, October 27, 2014

openSUSE integrated two projects (Tumbleweed and Factory) in one

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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 ?

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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).

network-manager mac address linux

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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Monday, October 6, 2014

Start in Linux server management with DigitalOcean

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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.

digitalocean


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

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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

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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

netflix on linux - user agent

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


netflix on linux



     
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Saturday, October 4, 2014

MICRO FOCUS buy ATTACHMATE the owner of SUSE LINUX

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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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