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VirtualBox 4.2.10 released and ubuntu installation instructions included

Posted 04-03-2013 at 11:02 AM by sridhar11

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.

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DebEX Barebone (Debian Wheezy/Sid) with LXDE and kernel 3.8.4

Posted 04-03-2013 at 10:30 AM by exton (Exton's Blog)

About DebEX Barebone
The system is a based on Debian Wheezy (upcoming Debian 7). There is also certain elements of Debian Sid (unstable). LXDE is used as Desktop environment. “The Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE) is an extremely fast-performing and energy-saving desktop environment“. I have replaced the original Debian kernel 3.2 with “my special” kernel 3.8.0-15-exton (Kernel.org’s 3.8.4, stable). The system language is English.

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sshd chroot jails based on hostname and SELinux

Posted 04-01-2013 at 10:46 AM by sag47
Updated 04-01-2013 at 10:51 AM by sag47

Tags chroot, jenkins, security, selinux, sshd

Why chroot jails based on host name?
If you don't care about the background info just jump to Setting up sshd chroot jail and SELinux.

So I have started configuring automated deployments through my organization using a continuous integration server called Jenkins. I'll post more on Jenkins regularly so that eventually you can have a series of posts which wrap up into a nice and secure howto for Jenkins. So here's why I want chroot jails based on host names.

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HP 2133 Mini-note PC crunching along just fine with Ubuntu

Posted 03-29-2013 at 04:42 PM by flshope

Tags hp 2133, suse, ubuntu 12.04 lts

After about a month since I installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (overwriting SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10) on my HP 2133 Mini-note PC, I can report that the machine has not crashed once with Ubuntu. Under SUSE, it crashed several times during on a session. If you have one of these machines with SUSE (a vendor installation) and yours crashes repeatedly, I recommend you consider installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. The process is a standard installation from an external DVD drive (I have an LG GP40, which is plug...

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EXTON OpSuS 12.3 with Cinnamon 1.6.7

Posted 03-29-2013 at 10:33 AM by exton (Exton's Blog)

Tags cinnamon, exton, exton opsus, opensuse 12.3

I’ve made yet another remaster of openSUSE 12.3, which was released on 13 March 2013. This time with the now so popular Desktop environment Cinnamon 1.6.7.

See a screenshot of the Cinnamon Desktop.

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