Enterprise distributions like Red Hat or SUSE are required to ship with MIT Kerberos. The reason is that several institutions or governments have a hard requirement for a special Kerberos implementation. It is the reason why the distributions by these vendors (Fedora, RHEL, openSUSE, SLES) only package Samba FS and not the AD component.

To get Samba AD into RHEL some day it was clear, that we need to port it to MIT Kerberos.

In 2013 we started to think about this. The question which arise first was: How do we run the tests if we port to MIT Kerberos? We want to start the krb5kdc daemon. This was more or less the birth of the cwrap project! Think of cwrap like it is “The Matrix” where reality is simulated and everything is a lie. It allows us to create an artificial environment emulating a complete network to test Samba. It took nearly a year till we were able to integrate the first part of cwrap, socket_wrapper, into Samba.

The User menu’s Authentication dialog now supports entering arbitrary paths to SSH keys for adding to the SSH authentication agent. Previously this only offered keys present in the standard ~/.ssh home directory.

Termius is a client terminal which has built-in Telnet and SSH, it was formerly known as Serverauditor, and it is cross-platform available for Linux, Windows, Mac, iOS and Android, it offers full Terminal emulation on all your devices. You can run multiple concurrent terminal sessions with SSH, Telnet and Mosh. It has a robust emulation environment with full Emacs, Vim and MC support. Special characters, colors and command line tools work exactly how you’d expect them to.

You don't have to worry about infrastructure and credentials, since they are organized very well and logically. It comes with powerful organization features. Combine a collection of hosts into a group with shared settings, easily configured at the top level. Effortlessly find what you’re looking for with tagging, search and rich previews.

Remmina is a free and open-source remote desktop application, it is written in C and GTK+, released under GNU GPL license, and only available for Unix/Linux based systems. Basically it aims to be useful for system administrators and for those who need to access remote computers. It supports multiple network protocols in an integrated and consistent UI, at the moment RDP, VNC, NX, SPICE, XDMCP and SSH protocols are supported. You can install Remmina plugins: RDP, VNC, NX, XDMCP, SSH, Telepathy

Less than a month after Krita 3.2.1, we’re getting ready to release Krita 3.3.0. We’re bumping the version because there are some important changes for Windows users in this version!

The major changes to be seen in Sublime Text 3.0 are the Goto Definition, the new UI, syntax highlighting engine and an expanded API. Spell-check and word wrapping work better now.

Emacs enthusiast Artur Malabarba has put the text editor to work taming Slack.

Malabarba likes Slack and feels it's a fine tool for intra-office chat, but also feels that “it’s also a powerful source of distractions.”

But he can't turn it off all day, so decided to “keep the spam in check.”

Doing so proved quite simple. There's already a Slack client for Emacs here on GitHub and Malabarba put it to work alongside “Alerts”, a “Growl-like alerts notifier for Emacs.”

The utilities are below.

Host Command
Dig Command
NSLookup Command

However, Adobe Creative Suite is a proprietary software costing you a good amount of your money and if you are a Linux user, even if you are willing to spend that money, it’s not available for your OS.

In this article, we are going to cover some of the best Adobe products alternative for Linux.

In Hollywood movies, hacking always seems interesting, especially because the whole action is spiced up with fancy desktop environments/backgrounds, rapidly uncontrolled typing (with loud typing noise/keystrokes) and rapid scrolling of command output on colorful terminals.

Patent-pending software-based firewall blocks all known exploits as well as "Zero Day" attacks from penetrating HTTP and SSL/HTTPS ports on Linux web servers; SecureWorks tested with 6,593 probes and manual hack attempts on the RoboCyberWall protected server without a single breach

Oracle announced new updates for its popular, cross-platform and open-source virtualization software, the third Beta of the upcoming VirtualBox 5.2 major release and VirtualBox 5.1.28 stable maintenance update.

We'll start with the stable update, VirtualBox 5.1.28, as it's more important for our readers using Oracle VM VirtualBox for all of their virtualization needs. The VirtualBox 5.1 maintenance release 28 is here to improve audio support by fixing various issues with both the ALSA and OSS backends, as well as an accidental crash with AC'97.

While Oracle recently let go of some of their SPARC team, today marks the launch of the SPARC M8.

The initial SPARC M8 line-up includes the T8-1, T8-2, T8-4. M8-8, and SuperCluster M8-8 servers.

The OpenStack Charms team is pleased to announce that the 17.08 release of the OpenStack Charms is now available from jujucharms.com!

In addition to 204 bug fixes across the charms and support for OpenStack Pike, this release includes a new charm for Gnocchi, support for Neutron internal DNS, Percona Cluster performance tuning and much more.

I am pleased to introduce the new release of PiCluster! In PiCluster 2.2, there is now support to deploy functions! With this new feature, applications can spin up containers themselves and retrieve data from the PiCluster server. Let’s explore how this works.

When a function is finished running, the container is automatically deleted and the output is stored on the server. When the application requests the data from the server, the data is removed as well.

Last time we heard the publictransport applet was being re-written was almost a year back now. Since then, it has indeed gone through some sorts of rewrite, but at the Randa meetings, 2017, this has taken a whole new course.

Running one's own mail system on the Internet has become an increasingly difficult thing to do, to the point that many people don't bother, even if they have the necessary skills. Among the challenges is spam; without effective spam filtering, an email account will quickly drown under a deluge of vile offers, phishing attempts, malware, and alternative facts. Many of us turn to SpamAssassin for this task, but it's not the only alternative; Rspamd is increasingly worth considering in this role. Your editor gave Rspamd a spin to get a sense for whether switching would be a good thing to do.

SpamAssassin is a highly effective tool; its developers could be forgiven for thinking that they have solved the spam problem and can move on. Which is good, because they would appear to have concluded exactly that. The "latest news" on the project's page reveals that the last release was 3.4.1, which came out in April 2015. Stability in a core communications tool is good but, still, it is worth asking whether there is really nothing more to be done in the area of spam filtering.

Drivers are a consistent source of kernel bugs, at least partly due to less review, but also because drivers are typically harder for tools to analyze. A team from the University of California, Santa Barbara has set out to change that with a static-analysis tool called DR. CHECKER. In a paper [PDF] presented at the recent 26th USENIX Security Symposium, the team introduced the tool and the results of running it on nine production Linux kernels. Those results were rather encouraging: "it correctly identified 158 critical zero-day bugs with an overall precision of 78%".