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Drones and Wearables App Store Launches
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•The world’s first App Store for the Internet of Things was announced today by Canonical Ltd. the makers of Ubuntu Linux. The company already has an app store for computers running the Ubuntu operating system, but the new IoT App Store will be for devices that have no graphic user interface . Source: Tech
Ubuntu: 2468-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
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•Software Description: – linux: Linux kernel Details: A null pointer dereference flaw was discovered in the the Linux kernel’s SCTP implementation when ASCONF is used. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service via a malformed INIT chunk. Source: Tech
pwntools – CTF Framework & Exploit Development Library
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•Written in Python, it is designed for rapid prototyping and development, and intended to make exploit writing as simple as possible. from pwn import * context r = remote # EXPLOIT CODE GOES HERE r.send )) r.interactive() pwntools is best supported on Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04, but most functionality should work on any Posix-like distribution…
Hel-lo Makulu and Goodbye Zeven
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•Today in Linux news, ZevenOS has decided to rest on Ubuntu’s laurels. Jamie Watson says Makulu 7 Xfce is the most beautiful distro he’s ever seen and Dedoimedo says Elementary 0.3 is “purrty.” Source: Tech
Edit PDF files On Ubuntu Linux using Master PDF Editor
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•Ready to be published? LXer is read by around 350,000 individuals each month, and is an excellent place for you to publish your ideas, thoughts, reviews, complaints, etc. Do you have something to say to the Linux community? Publish it here. Source: Tech
Enterprise Advances Brought Linux Success in 2014
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•For Linux, 2014 could easily be labeled the year enterprise really and truly embraced Linux. It could just as easily be labeled the year that nearly forgot Linux on the desktop. If you weren’t Docker, containers, OpenStack, or big data ─ chances are the spotlight didn’t brighten your day much. If, however, you (or your…
Snappy Ubuntu for Docker Containers Comes to Google's Cloud
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•Canonical , the company behind Ubuntu , one of the most popular Linux distributions, has made snappy Ubuntu Core, a version of the operating system designed for cloud infrastructure and optimized for running Docker containers, available on Google ‘s cloud. Canonical first announced snappy Ubuntu Core earlier this month and made it available on Microsoft…
Canonical's Stripped-Down "Snappy" Ubuntu Comes To Google's Compute Engine
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•A week ago, Canonical released the first alpha version of its new minimalist ” Snappy ” edition of Ubuntu Core for container farms. To the surprise of many, the launch partner for Snappy was Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform . Source: Tech
LinuxLive USB Creator 2.90 arrives
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•Thibaut LauziA re has announced the release of LinuxLive USB Creator 2.90 , his one-stop distro download and Live USB key builder. As usual, there’s support for the latest distributions: CentOS 7.0, Ubuntu 14.10, Debian Live 7.6.0, KNOPPIX 7.4.2 and more. Source: Tech