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I just wrote about the system administration issues related to the recent Debian SSL/SSH security flaw [1]. The next thing we need to consider is how we can change things to reduce the incidence of such problems. The problem we just had was due to the most important part of the entropy supply for the […] May 21st, 2008 | Tags: Best Posts, Debian, Most Popular | Category: Security | 5 comments - (Comments are closed) It has recently been announced that Debian had a serious bug in the OpenSSL code [1], the most visible affect of this is compromising SSH keys – but it can also affect VPN and HTTPS keys. Erich Schubert was one of the first people to point out the true horror of the problem, only 2^15 […] May 18th, 2008 | Tags: Best Posts, Debian, Most Popular | Category: Security | 14 comments - (Comments are closed) I believe that the Red Hat process which has Fedora for home users (with a rapid release cycle and new versions of software but support for only about one year) and Enterprise Linux (with a ~18 month release cycle, seven years of support, and not always having the latest versions) gives significant benefits for the […] May 16th, 2008 | Tags: Best Posts, Debian, Fedora, Most Popular | Category: Linux | 9 comments - (Comments are closed) Mark Shuttleworth has written an interesting post about Ubuntu release dates [1]. He claims that free software distributions are better able to meet release dates than proprietary OSs because they are not doing upstream development. The evidence that free software distributions generally do a reasonable job of meeting release dates (and Ubuntu does an excellent […] May 13th, 2008 | Tags: Best Posts, Debian, Most Popular | Category: Linux | 18 comments - (Comments are closed) I’m currently in Xen hell. My Thinkpad (which I won’t replace any time soon) has a Pentium-M CPU without PAE support. I think that Debian might re-introduce Xen support for CPUs without PAE in Lenny, but at the moment I have the choice of running without Xen or running an ancient kernel on my laptop. […] There has been ongoing debate in the Debian community for a number of years about what standards of behavior should be expected. Matthew Garrett sets a new low by making a joke about Jesus being molested as a child [1]. While I believe that debate and discussion about religion is a good thing, such comments […] April 24th, 2008 | Tags: Most Popular | Category: Uncategorized | 26 comments - (Comments are closed) An issue that causes ongoing discussion is what is the purpose of a Planet installation such as Planet Debian [1]. The discussion usually seems to take the less effective form of what is “appropriate” content for the Planet or what is considered to be “abuse” of the Planet. Of course it’s impossible to get anything […] April 21st, 2008 | Tags: Best Posts, Debian, Most Popular | Category: Blogging | 9 comments - (Comments are closed) Albert writes about software development and how much teamwork is used [1]. He makes an interesting clash of analogies by suggesting that it’s not a “team sport” because “its not like commercial fishing where many hands are used to pull in the net at the same time“. I think that software development for any non-trivial […] April 16th, 2008 | Tags: Best Posts, Debian, Most Popular | Category: Linux | 10 comments - (Comments are closed) I believe that apart from some exceptions (such as “links” posts) each post should stand alone. A reader should be able to read a single blog post and understand the author’s point without needing to visit any external sites. A common mistake is to write a post that can not be understood without following the links. […] My SE Linux Play Machine has been online again since the 18th of March. On Monday the 11th of Feb I took it offline after a user managed to change the password for my own account. Part of the problem was the way /bin/passwd determines whether it should change a password. […] April 2nd, 2008 | Tags: Best Posts, Most Popular, Selinux | Category: Security | 3 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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