Category: GNU/Linux

Stuff about GNU/Linux distro, tips and tricks or information

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Linuxtracker – GNU/Linux torrent tracker site

Hey, i found a GNU/Linux distro bittorent tracker site at http://linuxtracker.org/. You can find a lot of GNU/Linux distro here from the most familiar (Debian, Fedora, SUSE and Slackware) to seldom heard distro (astaro, auditor, b2d, berrylinux, etc). There’s a lot of distro to choose from! The list is not only limited to GNU/Linux distro, *BSD distro flavour derived operating systems are also listed here (FreeBSD, opensolaris, netbsd, OpenBSD, etc), making choices more diversified.

On the negative side, distros (torrents) offered here seems to lack seeders, with the exception of popular distros (Ubuntu, Fedora, Knoppix, etc), you will be considered lucky if you can get a torrent with more than 10 seeders for some seldom heard distro.

Finally, this site can be useful for you if you want to try out exotic distro or to find how diversified GNU/Linux distributions are.

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Unix worm that exploits vulnerable PHP/CGI scripts

Please secure and patch your PHP scripts, especially the one that uses xml-rpc protocol. The Linux/Lupper.worm (a variant of BSD/Scalper) might infect your system.

This worm spreads by exploiting specific PHP/CGI script vulnerabilities that could be hosted on the following URLs:

….
# http://[website]/stats/
# http://[website]/xmlrpc.php
# http://[website]/xmlrpc/xmlrpc.php
# http://[website]/xmlsrv/xmlrpc.php
# http://[website]/blog/xmlrpc.php
# http://[website]/drupal/xmlrpc.php
# http://[website]/community/xmlrpc.php
# http://[website]/blogs/xmlrpc.php
# http://[website]/blogs/xmlsrv/xmlrpc.php
# http://[website]/blog/xmlsrv/xmlrpc.php
# http://[website]/blogtest/xmlsrv/xmlrpc.php
# http://[website]/b2/xmlsrv/xmlrpc.php
# http://[website]/b2evo/xmlsrv/xmlrpc.php
# http://[website]/wordpress/xmlrpc.php
# http://[website]/phpgroupware/xmlrpc.php
…

Source : McAfee virus information library

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How to customize Ubuntu and Knoppix GNU/Linux Live CD

Ubuntu LiveCD

If you are looking a way to produce your own demo cd, or your own cool GNU/Linux live CD, then your might find the guides listed below are useful for you

Ubuntu

How To Customize the New Ubuntu Live CD

Customizing Knoppix

Remastering Knoppix

You might find that a lot of customised Linux Live CD are based on these two distro. Notably, the GNOME 2.12 Live CD, UNDP/IOSN LiveCD and MyKnoppix

Happy customizing!

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BitlBee – turn your IRC client into multiprotocol Instant Messenger client

biltbee logo at blog.mypapit.net

Check out BitlBee, IRC gateway that can turn your irc client into a multi-protocol Instant Messenger client!

The main motivation behind BiltBee is to enable console users to use a multi-protocol Instant Messenger client. Since irc clients is common in console environments, so BiltBee is implemented as a gateway server, so that a user can connect to their favorite IM networks as if connecting through an irc server.

BiltBee server is available under GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows platform. It supports MSN, ICQ, Jabber, AIM, and Yahoo! IM networks.

You can connect to public Bitbee server through CGI interface at http://cgi.bitlbee.org if you don’t want to install BitlBee in your computer.

BitlBee Screenshot :

Oh, BitlBee is licensed in GNU General Public License.

  1. BitlBee website
  2. BitlBee public server