After an interesting development cycle, SimplyMepis 6.5 was delivered to the anxiously awaiting community yesterday. Having started out as an update to the 6.0 release, it soon grew to encompass several highly desired features. As a result, it was given a bump in version number and delivers one of the most enjoyable computing experiences available at this time.

As you may know, SimplyMepis started out as one of the first livecds available. Based on Debian, it offered the user a very stable yet user-friendly alternative to the install-before-you-try distros of the time. Just about its only rivals were Knoppix and Damn Small Linux. Knoppix was nice, but Mepis (as it was known then) was prettier, offered more boot/run-time flexibility and included a hard drive installer. It evolved and improved over the years until its most dramatic change last fall when Warren announced that SimplyMepis would no longer be based on Debian but Ubuntu. Reasons for this were mainly the faster developmental cycle of Ubuntu and newer underlying/base code.

Source: Tux Machines

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Norway’s Opera Software yesterday released Opera 9.2, an update to its popular, freely-available web browser. The new version supports 31 languages and introduces a new “speed dial” function plus a set of alpha-level developer tools, according to the company.

“Speed Dial dynamically merges a default set of searches with your custom searches. The search engine in Speed Dial can be chosen in Search preferences,” the team said in the release announcement. You’ll also see a thumbnail of that site on the Speed Dial bookmark, unlike a regular bookmark, the team said.

You can download your own free version of Opera 9.2 here.

Source: Desktop Linux

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OpenBSD’s spamd is a SPAM deferral daemon which rejects false mail in a very efficient way. spamd is a fake MTA or mail daemon which rejects false mail. It is designed to be very efficient so that it does not slow down the receiving machine.

For large email server I put spamd infront of Postfix. If you are just using a Postfix MTA try these tips to avoid spam.

From the article:

We all know about the rampant spam email problem. Nearly all of the potential solutions offered for it are based on the idea of the mail server receiving messages, classifying them as either spam or legitimate, and then processing further (deleting or forwarding messages) as appropriate. The problem with this strategy is that you end up using extra resources on the mail server. Here’s a way to get the same result while minimizing resource usage by preventing the spam from reaching the mail server.
The order of things is as follows:
1. Decide on a physical hookup and IP addressing scheme.
2. Get spamd configured and running.
3. Tell OpenBSD to send any TCP 25 traffic to spamd for evaluation (yes, that is a required step). But we also must tell OpenBSD to forward email from “good” senders to our real email server. PF rules (OpenBSD’s version of iptables) take care of that.
4. Test, test, test!

Installing and configuring spamd

(Yeah it is work but trust me it works really well,Baldy)

Technorati tags: Security, How-To

Source: Howto install and configure OpenBSD spamd

In my first article, I provided some basic understanding of how scheduling on Linux operating system works. This article will provide some additional detail that I may have missed and it will mostly give examples of many different neat tricks you can do in a crontab file.

[There are some neat things in here that are even new to me — Sander]

 

Technorati tags: Linux, Software

Source: Linux Scheduling for Absolute Beginners, Part 2

It’s a delicious paradox that Linux, which was for years the system for people who really enjoyed fiddling with their computers, should have developed to the point where it’s the best system for people who hate the bloody things.

Source: Why Linux is the perfect system for people who hate computers

Trickle is a lightweight userspace bandwidth shaper for users with low-speed Internet connections that lets you limit the bandwidth that a specific protocol is using so that you can maintain multiple simultaneous connections and not end up in a…

 

Technorati tags: Software

Source: Shape your traffic with trickle