I have been a full time Ubuntu user since 2006. Before that I tried to like it, but couldn’t. I moved to it out of necessity when MEPIS began to play around with it core, switching from Debian to Ubuntu and back in six months. It was a fun ride, but it was not what I was interested in. Ubuntu was my only viable choice. It took time for it to grow on me. In a sense we have grown together.

When  the Ubuntu 9.10 alpha came out I installed it on a separate partition while using Ubuntu 9.04 on another partition as my main OS. I am active on several help forums, problem solving mostly Ubuntu and Kubuntu problems. I run Ubuntu from alpha to final. I report bugs and watch it grow into maturity with pride. I spread the word and help others with problems. I have been a faithful user in every sense of the word.

I am at the same time a Fedora resister. I began with Mandrake and lived in RPM hell for two years. Yes, RPM has matured, but I have a well established hatred of that package management system. I tried Fedora’s first few releases, but they left me cold. I have tried each release of Fedora since, but it has continued to rub me the wrong way. Until recently.

I installed three distros in one week. Mandriva 2010, openSuSE 11.2 and Fedora 12. This is normal for me. What is different is that I am seriously looking for an alternative to Ubuntu. Some decisions made by Canonical have left me wondering where I stand with them. I feel that I am being held hostage by the inner clique that runs Canonical. So much for a community based distro.

The movement towards inclusion of more Mono just plain bothers me. I tend towards RMS’ thinking on Mono. At the very least it is controversial and divisive enough that we need to avoid it. We don’t need the hassle and Mono has yet to prove worthy of all of the hype. Enough of that. I have already blogged on it.

The second thing that annoys me is the decision to leave out the GIMP. I get the fact that there is the need to make cuts to fit on a CD. But the GIMP is an integral part of GNOME. It is the basis for GTK. It is one of the oldest applications in GNOME and it has finally matured. It has made some great improvements and they are working on improving the interface. This is a slap in the face to GNOME and the GIMP developers. I admit that I am a heavy GIMP user. But many users come to Linux to use applications like the GIMP which are a free alternative to Photoshop, one of the most widely used Windows applications. F-spot cannot replace the GIMP. It is not up to the task if you know anything about photography.

Here’s what troubles me. It seems there was no consultation. Developers are starting to speak up for users and that is a bad trend. It seems that the community exists just for PR purposes. A wall has been erected between users and developers. This decision paired with the inclusion of Mono which has to use mega CD space just rubs me the wrong way. In addition they decided to include PiTiVi which is a video editor full of bugs. How many users edit video in comparison to photos? They claim that F-Spot can do the job. Not! It can rotate and crop, but anything beyond that it is useless and on top of that it overwrites important EXIF data. Their reasoning is just plain stupid. Want to save space? Get rid of F-spot and Mono. Both are useless. If they want a video editor then find one that works properly. Just don’t belittle us with lame reasoning.

Yes, users can remove Mono. But why should they have to? It is an inconvenience for a large number of users. Yes, users can install the GIMP, but the same could be said for PiTiVi. It is what this says to to users that counts. It says that we don’t count and the developers will do as they please. It says that GTK is not as important as Mono, if a third rate Mono programme can replace a first rate GTK one.

My break with Canonical is not complete but it has been a long time in coming. I don’t feel part of Ubuntu like I once did, which is a shame. I have a real affection for it and for the community. So, for now I am looking around and liking what I am seeing.

Using other distros is nothing new to me. I routinely install them in my many partitions. Usually I run them for a few days then I tire of them and switch back to Ubuntu. Let me say that my Ubuntu and Kubuntu installation is working perfectly. I am in no way dissatisfied with the product. It is everything that I could want. In the end I may return to Kubuntu and just kiss Ubuntu goodbye. I don’t know. Right now, I am using Fedora 12 and working at liking it.

Fedora is not for new users. It is for intermediate and power users. I fall somewhere between those two extremes. I can do many of the things that power users do but choose not to. Compiling from source seems like a waste of my valuable time. I do it only when I have no alternative. If I want a faster computer then I will buy one. I’ll use the commandline when I have to but it isn’t my first choice. I am not a programmer so I avoid typing when I have an alternative. I would say that I am a lazy advanced user.

Many of the hoops that one must jump through to use Fedora simply just wear down the casual user. It does not come with things that many newbies expect such as multimedia working out of the box. Ubuntu conveniently packages these things together in the restricted-extras, but Fedora users don’t have this option. They can be added, but you just need to do a little more legwork. The same could be said for proprietary video drivers. My Nvidia card works perfectly in most distributions except in Fedora. The Nouveau drivers just don’t use the cards’ 3D capability. It isn’t so much the rotating Compiz cube that I miss, but I really have come to depend on a bottom panel like AWN or the KDE Fancy Panel. Having a 3D card without 3D is kind of pointless.

I enabled sudo right off, so the two password thing is not really a problem. I found RPMFusion and have most of my favourite applications. So all in all the transition has been quite smooth. I expect to by rpming and yumming with the best of them before long.

I have not written off completely Canonical and Ubuntu. As I said, my Ubuntu partition is working perfectly fine, but I now know that I can find happiness outside of Ubuntu. I think that Canonical’s success has gone to its head. They are beginning to take the users that made it what it is for granted and that is not a good thing.

They won’t miss one user like me, but they will start to notice if lots of others start to drift away. It may take a bit of revolt to get them to pay attention to their base. I won’t go quietly. I interact with many users and affect the choices of many people. I won’t direct them towards Fedora, but I may not direct them to Ubuntu either. Right now, I am being cautious and hopeful that Canonical will start to talk sense and stop treating users like idiots and taking us for granted. Fedora is my hole card and not a bad one either.

I find Fedora 12 fast and responsive. It loads quickly and after it is set up it seems stable. I can find most of the applications that I use and there are many online resources to assist me with setting up my system. So far, I have installed KDE 4 and GNOME and like the look and feel of both. The community has been helpful but quite a bit smaller than what I am used to. I expect to write more about Fedora in the future.

As for Mandriva 2010 and openSuSE 11.2, I was disappointed with each. Mandriva just does not have the resources to compete. Its repositories are limited and I did not like the installer at all. I had an even worse experience with openSuSE that would not allow me to change a setting in the partition editor. It kept on wanting to format my sda drive which was not the one I was using. In the end it trashed a partition and installed grub to a drive that I told it not to. I was not happy. Both get low marks in comparison to Fedora 12 and Ubuntu 9.10.

Despite all that I have said, Ubuntu 9.10 continues to be the distribution to beat. That was the case before Fedora 12 came along and it is after. But Fedora is a good second choice for me and I won’t hesitate to move to it when the time is right. I suspect that I am not the only disenchanted Ubuntu user. I have my ear to the ground in the forums and blogoshere and there is a groundswell of grumbling.

Previously I’ve used scripts with static paths to create backups, switching to revision control simplified things a lot. Combine with cron and you have a pretty powerful backup system.

I use this to backup global and user config files (/etc, ~/.config etc)

Install a revision control application

There are a lot to choose from (CVS, SVN, BZR, GIT etc.). Pick one and emerge. I strongly recommend GIT (for any purpose). In this example BZR is used, because I haven’t updated it yet.

Set up a cron-job

In wixie cron add a file called /etc/cron.daily/backup and make it executable. This will create a daily backup routine. Here is my script. It exports the current revision to a bzipped archive on a USB-stick (if mounted) with GPG encryption.

CURRENT_DATE=`date +"%d-%m-%y"`
DESTINATION="/media/backup-pin"
BZR="/"
TAR="$DESTINATION/backup-$CURRENT_DATE.tar.bz2"
PGP_ID="YOUR_ID_HERE"

if [ -d "$DESTINATION" ]; then # Only exists when mounted
   bzr export $TAR $BZR
   if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
     gpg -e -r "$PGP_ID" $TAR
     if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
       rm -f $TAR # Remove temporary file
     fi
   fi
fi

Add files and file filters

In /.bzrignore (.gitignore etc) add “*” so you ignore all files except those you manually add.

Hi everybody !!!

Sorry for not posting anything on the blog about Kubuntu and other Linux stuff for a long period of time. I’m back and I will try to recover the lost time. I will start with a post about the new Kubuntu 9.10 . I heard it’s very good. I’ll install it on my PC and make a review and a short movie to see what’s all about.

I’m glad that I’m back and I’ll see you soon

Nautilus no genera vistas previas (Thumbnails) para algunos archivos sin haber instalado antes los codecs correspondientes.

Parece ser que si no instalas los codecs correspondientes para reproducir el formato de vídeo, Nautilus ‘omite’ los archivos sin codecs (como era de esperar).
La solución es bastante simple:

cd $HOME/.thumbnails/fail/gnome-thumbnail-factory/

rm *

Con estos dos sencillos pasos, Nautilus regenerará todas las vistas previas de los archivos (Previews – Thumbnails). En caso de que no se regenerasen:

killall nautilus

nautilus &

Listo

Espero que os sirva de ayuda.

Bueno, como much@s de vosotr@s ya sabeis, hará algún tiempo inauguré una sección llamada ‘Ordenador Linux‘, en esa sección proponía varios ordenadores con Linux pre instalado para que pudierais comprar un ordenador económico y a la vez con Linux (Cualquier distribución) y así también, colaborar con GenLinux.

Pues bien, pasado un tiempo y a fecha de hoy (26 de Septiembre de 2009) la lista de compradores es la siguiente: (Sólo nombraré pseudónimos (aka nicks))

• Racing21
• Exparta
• Euse
• Auriox
• Mazescape
• Zarroz

Y por el momento ésto es todo, recordaros que los pagos se realizan a través de Paypal, que no hay problemas de estafa (me llevais conociendo desde hace ya bastante tiempo) y que la finalidad de ésto es sacar algunas ‘pelillas’ con el weblog. Principalmente, los envíos que he realizado hasta ahora han sido en territorio Español, pero támpoco cierro puertas a envíos internacionales (siempre y cuando la persona interesada corra con los gastos extras que se generan al ser un envío internacional.

Muchas veces necesitamos hacer uso de un dominio específico y de una forma exclusiva las peticiones y todos los enlaces conduzcan a una determinada URI.

Tal vez no me esteis entendiendo pero ahora seguro que sí.

Más de un webmaster se habrá comido la cabeza pensando si su dominio debería ser accesible atraves de http://ejemplo.es y http://www.ejemplo.es, la diferencia tan solo está en el WWW (World Wide Web), aunque, como hoy en día el ranking de las páginas también se ve afectado por los buscadores como Google es recomendable que unifiquemos todo el tráfico bajo un dominio y una forma de petición al mismo, es decir WWW ó No WWW pero sólo una.

¿Cómo se consigue redireccionar las peticiones Sin WWW a WWW?
Facil, haciendo uso del mod_rewrite de Apache,  podemos hacerlo. Creamos un archivo .htaccess y escribimos lo siguiente:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.ejemplo.es
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://www.ejemplo.es%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

¿Y al reves?

Idéntico, creamos un archivo .htaccess y insertamos lo siguiente:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.ejemplo.es
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://ejemplo.es%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

Una vez creado el archivo .htaccess tan sólo debemos subirlo vía FTP a nuestro servidor a la carpeta www ó public_html/ (varía según configuración).

PS: Estas instrucciones también se podrían utilizar para redireccionar una web a otra… pero no lo useis para cositas malas

I have been on holiday and am back to the computer after two months of sun and frolic. What follows is a continuation of themes previously explored and represents my current state of mind and Linux philosophy.

What works for me may not work for you. That’s the great thing about Linux. We have choice. There are well over 300 distributions and many different possible desktops to multiply the choice several fold.

As with many people, my Linux starting point is Ubuntu. I always install the 64 bit version of the latest release. I prefer to start with a fresh installation every six months. People complain about this, but I actually look forward to a new release each April and October. I not only do not mind re-installing this often and actually will do it in mid-release just for the fun of it. I don’t need to re-install; I do it as an exercise. I have a system that makes it a piece of cake.

I chose Ubuntu for many reasons. I like a distribution that is aggressive, always pushing the envelope, with a fixed release schedule. I have not had a significant problem with any Ubuntu release from Feisty on. I cannot say that about any other distribution.

I also choose Ubuntu because of the number of packages available to it. There isn’t anything that I cannot do in Ubuntu and I hate restrictions. My final and most important reason is people. Love them or hate them, Ubuntu has the most users and the largest and most dynamic community. Unlike many communities they do not have an axe to grind. It is open and friendly and that is what I like. It has the most podcasts, the most RSS feeds and the most forums devoted to it.

Things that I initially hated about Ubuntu, such as sudo and the Ubiquity installer, I now see as strong points. Funny the way things change as you get used to them. I have tried other installers, in fact most of them, but Ubuntu’s is the best to my way of thinking. It allows me to choose everything up front before it installs anything. Once installation begins I can walk away for fifteen or twenty minutes until it is complete with no more questions asked. Then after I re-boot I can tailor it to suit my own purposes.

My problems with Ubuntu are two-fold. I don’t like GNOME as my first choice and I do not use Mono. I get around this by installing Kubuntu afterwards. This might seem odd that I don’t start with Kubuntu, but I like some features of GNOME and will boot into it every once in a while. I install Kubuntu second because it replaces the things that I don’t like about GNOME such as GDM and the logon screens. My improvement on this is to install Xubuntu after KDE because I like its logon screen better and I use XFCE now and again.

I like multiple desktop environments for several reasons. I have had desktop environments lose some functionality from time to time as one package or another ceases to work. Most of the time it is not an important package and the problem is unnoticeable. However, there have been occasions where both KDE and GNOME have acted up. Most recently it was when I first moved to KDE 4.3. For awhile KDE would not load, so I switched to GNOME and did and apt-get upgrade and KDE worked once again. Sometimes I switch environments for a day or two or even a week at a time for variety.

The first thing that I install is the restricted extras. At the same time I remove Mono and install gtk-qt-engine so that GNOME applications don’t look so ugly. My obvious bias is that QT4 looks much better than GTK. GNOME looks every bit as dated as it is. It is sadly in need of a face lift. Add to this the fact that Ubuntu’s take on GNOME is particularly ugly and you can see why pretty it up as much as possible. I am not a fan of the human theme.

In both GNOME and KDE, I use Compiz for desktop effects and add the Avant Window Navigator at the bottom. Which might cause you to wonder where my panel is. In both GNOME and KDE, I use one panel at the top. I also use single click instead of double click in both desktop environments.

To simplify matters, I use one home partition for everything and have my list of programmes saved to a text file so that I can reinstall them easily. It is really quite straight forward and automatic. Generally speaking, after the initial installation and re-booting I can have apt go to work installing my list of programmes from the text file and I am back in business within an hour or two without so much as a hiccough.

I have tried Fedora, Debian, Mandriva, OpenSuSE and all of the rest. What I do cannot be done with other distributions. Most of them do not even have all of the applications that I use. The exception to this would be Debian. It is a worthy distribution in every sense of the word. However, the Debian community is not user friendly and I need something that is edgier in terms of its production schedule. If there was no Ubuntu, I would likely use Sidux. For now, even with its imperfections, I continue to use Ubuntu or at least my own take on it which is XKUbuntu.

Each distribution has its strengths and weaknesses. Ubuntu’s strength is in sheer numbers. It has the deepest and most up to date repositories. It has the largest community. These appeal to me because I use lots of applications and like to assist others. However, another person may dislike Ubuntu for precisely these reasons. They may feel overwhelmed by choice and want a small community or ever prefer to be a lone ranger.

That’s what you have to love about Linux. (Sorry GNU/Linux folks. It just does not sound right.) There is room enough for all and a place for everyone. The problem is in finding what works best for you and sticking with it. It seems that I have found a winning formula that works for me.

For anyone still trying to find their place, Ubuntu is an excellent place to start. If you want an even easier distribution there is Linux Mint or SimplyMEPIS. If you don’t mind RPM (and I do) then you could try PCLinuxOS or Mandriva. They have smaller repositories so your needs must be modest in this respect. My problem with PCLOS and SimplyMEPIS is their position with respect to KDE. KDE 4.3 is so much better than KDE 3.5. Sticking with KDE 3.5 is a loser’s game. You might as well switch to GNOME. At least, it has a future.

Once you know your way around Linux you could move to a more advanced distribution such as Debian, Fedora or OpenSuSE. If you want even more challenges you could try Arch, Slackware, Sabayon or Gentoo. We have still only scratched the surface. You could probably try a new distro each day of the year and not run out!

Ubuntu however can be as easy as you want and you can still build to your heart’s content. It has a range that is broader than most. That is why I stick with it. While a simple distribution has trouble keeping users once they have mastered the basics, Ubuntu grows with you. A complex distro keeps users at arms’ length until their skills develop and drains your time and energy once you take it on. You don’t have any choice once you go down that road but to devote time and energy because it does not offer an easy path.

I recommend Ubuntu most often because it offers users the most choice. Debian has as many packages and supports more architectures, but Ubuntu is a close second. But Ubuntu goes way beyond Debian in other respects. It offers the most desktop environments, with Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and more. It offers more installation possibilities with Wubi, the regular installation disk, a custom installation disk and server disks.

As I said previously. It is a good starting point, but the journey does not end there.

The Slackware Bible, need I say more.

Current Conky Configuration File that I use on my Linux Workstations. Click here for file in .pdf format.

Para que os hagais una idea, Spotify es un proyecto que te permite escuchar cualquier típo de música sin necesidad de tener ‘esa copia de seguridad que tenemos todos’ ó sin tener que comprar los CD’s.

Bien, hoy he recibido una invitación de un compañero (WiZaRd_) (PS: No le pidais invitaciones que es Maquero x”DDD) para Spotify, cual fué mi sorpresa al entrar a la zona de descargas para comprobar que Spotify no facilita un cliente nativo para Linux. ¿Cómo? Esto tiene que ser una broma, hasta Mac tiene un cliente nativo y porqué no Linux?

Pues bien, leyendo un poco por la red sobre el tema, me encuentro con que, para acceder al API de Spotify, tienes que pagar por una cuenta premium (9,99 Euros / Mes). Hasta aquí podría pasar, si no fuera porque, sólo te facilitan el BINARIO, no te permiten modificar el API de ninguna de las maneras!

Si eso no fuera poco, se ha visto a la legüa que sólo querían hacer negocio con el API para que, la comunidad Linuxera tenga que pagar su “cuota” para tener acceso al dichoso API.

¿Cuál es la solución que ofrece Spotify para Linux? Wine. Y no os pica la curiosidad? Coño, por qué cojones hacen paquete para Mac, dejarles que usen Wine .

Este post más que ser un post educativo y/o informativo sólo es una mera queja personal contra este típo de proyectos sin criterio alguno, que solo buscan hacer negocio a las malas y más contra una comunidad como la de Linux que crece cada día.

Espero que NADIE, con dos dedos de frente use Wine para tirar de Spotify, por muy buen servicio que sea, Que hagan un porte para Linux y no nos den soluciones que ya conocemos todos como Wine.

Desde aquí, todo mi apoyo a Cualquier Petición a Spotify Que les OBLIGUE a crear una edición para Linux!

¡Por una PUTA versión NATIVA de Spotify Para Linux!

A summary of my experiences

I have been trying out a lot of operating systems these past few years. Like 99.9% of the current population using personal computers I came from a Windows background, beginning with Dos and skipping Windows 3.11 and Windows 95. Windows 98 was my first real point and click GUI . Many who dared to venture beyond stumbled upon Mackintosh, but not me. At the time I first started experimenting (about 6 years ago) with a different OS, I didn’t really have the financial resources to move to Mac, which left me with few options, all of which were daunting to me at the time.

The options that were known to me at the time were BSD or Linux. BSD looked stable, but what to do with a blinking cursor after install, no knowledge of UNIX systems, not forgetting the hard task of partitioning (for me at the time) in all sorts of unknown directories like /var /usr etc. So I was left with Linux.. which looked very much like BSD but seemed less daunting because of the user-friendly installer and GUI which in many cases was prepacked by default. More importantly to me they could run on a relatively old and cheap pc, bought from eBay (or marktplaats.nl in my home country) for 50 euro’s. That way i didn’t have to replace my pc for every update or app that came along and still remain fast.

After toying and getting frustrated with Red Hat, I came across a Linux Distro called Mandrake Linux. This was the moment I got introduced more gently into the Linux world. I started playing around with the system and soon I wanted cooler apps to run, most of which had to be compiled from the terminal. In this playful manner I started feeling comfortable in the terminal and we became better acquainted.

I used Mandrake for a long time, after which it became more commercial and renamed to Mandriva. I decided it was time to try a different distro and found a website called distrowatch were there was a multitude of choice between the various linux and bsd distro’s. I stumbled upon a disto called Ubuntu which looked more friendly then it’s “mother” Debian Linux.

Ubuntu was a huge success for me, and I loved it, and still do. Since then Ubuntu has made huge leaps forwards in advancements and package sources. I eventually got my hands on a MacMini on which I installed Ubuntu, which worked almost perfectly. Alas I could not get the sound to work properly. But it served as a perfect file and mp3 server.

I have also experimented with Slackware (Not for noobs), PC-BSD (Which is very easy, but didn’t support all my hardware), Linux Mint (Great lightweight OS) and Mepis (Which tries to combine the best of multiple worlds, using debian/ubuntu repositories). OpenSuse was also a great OS, but not to my taste, it felt kind of heavy in terms of performance. Last I also use Knoppix in case a need to rescue a faltering harddrive.

Currently I use Debian Lenny which is extremely stable and has a massive amount of packages to choose from, all be it a bit outdated if your looking for bleeding edge, which I am not. I have it in dual boot with Windows Vista, which takes a small chunk of my harddrive. I did this because my TV tuner doesn’t have sound support in Linux, and I do love playing games… which is were Linux still still lagging behind. But Who knows what will happen when Chrome OS (Googles expected operating system) comes along. To my knowledge it based on Linux, so this could motivate the industry to make it multi OS compatible.

I’m still trying to get the sound working for my tv card. Once I get that working in Debian Lenny, I’ll start working on MythTV, which looks much like Windows Media Center, but has a number of advantages and disadvantages, which i’ll discuss in an upcomming discussion.

I still have much much to learn, but that is essentially why I personally like Linux so much..

Últimamente se lee mucho eso de ‘Heuristic Mode‘ (Modo Heurístico), pues bien, BitDefender, Norton y demás compañías de Anti Virus ofrecen este típo de protección pero, hasta qué punto es segura?

Los algoritmos heurísticos que usan los AntiVirus a día de hoy sólo se basan en reglas predefinidas, pasos que, con los conocimientos de los virus anteriores se crean reglas en tiempo real para poder ‘neutralizar’ el efecto del virus desconocido.

Aunque suene a desengaño, el modo heurístico de los Antivirus no es más que una forma de “intentar evitar” amenazas recientes, buscando una “posible (que no  necesariamente correcta)” forma de eliminarlos. Pongamos un ejemplo de como funcionan los algoritmos heurísticos hoy en día;

Supongamos que un día existió ‘DobleGusanoMix2001″, el mismo lo que hacía era, modificar el registro para cambiar las páginas de inicio actuales por otras falsas ó con publicidad (Hijacking), registraba todas las pulsaciones en un archivo y las exportaba a un archivo de texto para, posteriormente, enviarlas vía IRC (Internet Relay Chat) a su autor con la finalidad de tener todas las claves almacenadas y tener acceso a las mismas. Pues bien, imaginemos que hoy se publicase el “DobleGusanoMix2009″, éste es su variante ‘mayor’, ha aprendido de sus errores en el pasado como por ejemplo almacenar las contraseñas en un archivo de texto en modo visible y ha pasado a almacenarlo en archivos temporales cambiando secuencialmente el nombre del archivo cada ‘X’ tiempo. Nosotros y nuestro fabuloso ‘QuitaBichoQueTeMeto v2.020.2390′ con modo heurístico activado, al encontrar el virus pero NO reconocerlo por la firma (todos los virus llevan una especie de ‘firma’ que los hace reconocibles), de modo totalmente independiente intenta analzar la amenaza buscando ’similitudes’ con otros virus del pasado y controlando las actividades del proceso (virus actual). Como ya hemos dicho el ‘DobleGusanoMix2009′ ya no guarda un archivo de texto con las contraseñas, lo cual ya hace que el Antivirus dude ante la búsqueda de escritura de archivos en ‘X’ directorio, el gusano ya no abre conexión de IRC permanente atraves del puerto 6667 sino que, cada 33 días conecta al IRC para ‘hablar’ con su dueño y así informarle, ahora támpoco modifica el registro en el momento de la instalación sino que, para evitar ser detectado, muestra Pop-Ups (Ventanas Emergentes) al usuario mientras navega para que parezca un pop-up del mismo navegador con la intención de crear confusión y así recibir la “Confirmación” para que sea una interacción consentida y que con un poco de suerte, el antivirus no percate diferencias. Con este último paso, nuestro pequeño ‘monstruo’ ha modificado la página de inicio de la víctima apuntando o bien a una réplica de Google (recordar que para que fuera una réplica totalmente creible tendría que modificar el archivo hosts de Windows).

Con todas estas ‘mejoras’ en el virus, el antivirus podría ser capaz de detectar en parte el código del mismo si tuvieran similitudes, el cálculo de hash, etcétera. Ahora la duda nos asalta, qué algoritmo tan maravilloso y asombroso es capaz de detectar la mala fé del ‘proceso’ que tan solo modifica el registro previa aceptación del usuario y sólo realiza conexiones cada 33 días? el código del virus no lo hemos comprobado ya que las heurísticas comprueban las acciones de los procesos en tiempo real, no el código que seguramente esté encriptado como la mayoría de los programas hoy en día.

Sería capaz cualquier compañía de Antivirus de crear un algoritmo que sea capaz de distinguir entre una aplicación malintencionada y una normal?

Este texto tan solo intenta simplificar lo que las compañías de Antivirus nos venden en sus nuevas versiones como si fuera algo milagroso, en ningún caso intento desprestigiar, en cualquier caso, intento explicar a la gente de una forma clara y sencilla lo que se ofrece como solución definitiva.

Cualquier añadido/Consejo será bien recibido, espero vuestros comentarios.

Before I officially start this blog I want to present you a short movie of my previous Linux OS: Kubuntu 9.04. It had the KDE 4.2 with Kwin desktop effects. It worked almost perfect, with some minor errors, but now there is an updated version of Kubuntu 9.04 and I think the bugs are fixed. The package manager is very easy to use, maybe the easiest, and has almost everything you need.

At the moment I’m preparing to install a version of Linux to start working. I think I’ll install Linux Mint. If you have another suggestion please leave a comment.

This blog is dedicated for Linux beginners. In here will be posted step by step movies on how to set up your Linux correctly and it’s programs. Every movie will have a short text description to help you understand what’s in it. The text will be necessary because all the movies will have a sound track, not a spoken explication. I hope that with this blog I will help the Linux starters and encourage people to use a free Linux OS because it’s faster, better, more secure and of course FREE ! Enjoy and if you will have questions please ask then as a comment and I will answer as fast as I can. Have a nice day

I have used Ubuntu exclusively since Feisty and have tested each new release from alpha on. I have always been a big booster of Ubuntu and am active on several help forums. Yet, despite all of this history together I am thinking seriously of leaving Planet Ubuntu. Here’s why Ubuntu is driving me away.

If there is anything that I feel is more important than any individual distribution, it is software freedom. It is what brought me to Linux in the first place. Ubuntu has managed to straddle a line that allows me to use what I want, putting the user in full command. In other words, I have had to add things to break with FOSS ideals, the so-called restricted extras. Except that is now a lie and I am really struggling with it.

You see, each time I install Ubuntu I have to strip out some things that I do not agree with and that should not be the case. If Canonical is to be consistent, I should not have to a a hypocrite about some things and not others. It is this inconsistency that is causing me to re-think Ubuntu.

The bone of contention for me is Mono. I remove it. I don’t like it. I refuse to use it. It rubs me the wrong way. Anything that starts with Microsoft and goes via the sellout, Novell, cannot be good.

I know that Microsoft is opposed to the existence of Linux. That have said so, often and stridently. I know that Novell caved in and did not stand up for FOSS when they had the chance. They have since apologized, sort of, but the damage is done. Other companies did not follow suit, including Red Hat and Canonical. I respect them for this as much as I detest Novell for selling us down the drain.

Mono is not only a reminder of that sellout, but its legal status is far from settled. Novell and Microsoft can’t agree on who can distribute it. Microsoft takes the position that their agreement only covers Novell and not other distributions. Novell thinks otherwise. I do not care. Nothing that comes from Microsoft can be for our good and benefit. They are dedicated to our destruction and downfall.

Mono has infected Gnome. Ubuntu uses Gnome. I switched to Kubuntu and am happy with it. Now Moonlight is infecting Linux. Canonical is compromising its principles in the use of them and in my using their products I am forced to compromise my own values.

Yes, I can strip out Mono. In fact, doing so gives me a thrill. But should I have to? If Canonical is to be consistent they should have Mono as an option, as they do with the restricted extras. I should not have to feel sullied after installing Ubuntu.

I can continue to use Kubuntu, but I am not sure where Canonical is taking me with that. Will Mono infect KDE or will Moonlight become a future issue that I will have to deal with? At this point, I have no confidence that they will continue to take a principled decision in supporting FOSS. That is the question that I keep running over in my mind.

The question for me is where to go? Fedora is dumping Mono. Debian is too. Kudos for them.

I am not keen on Fedora as a distribution. I have used it since Core 2 and have issues with it. It is hard for me to like. RPM is not for me, either. I have used it since Mandrake 7 and it has always let me down. It is just a question of when it breaks. Besides Fedora and every other RPM distro does not have the package selection that comes with Debian-based distros.

My problem with Debian is more complex. It will never become popular due to its philosophy and approach which is exclusive rather than inclusive. I have frequented their forums and I don’t like their take it or leave it attitude. It hardly encourages newcomers. It is too fascist for my taste. No flexiblity at all.

I do not like the rolling release model, either. Rolling releases mean that when you install you are installing knowing that it is already stale on the installation medium. You will have to do massive updates, post installation. You could do a net installation, but that isn’t good for newbies. The installer alone is daunting for a newbie. That means that I will have to give up much of what I do in help forums. I use Ubuntu because it is popular not for myself, but for others, so that I can help people get a start in Linux.

My third issue with Debian is that I have long held the view that “stable is for sissies”. I love trying the newest and the latest of everything. I don’t mind troubleshooting problems and doing a full re-installation if necessary. However, I don’t much like the idea of starting from scratch and doing tons of updates each time. With Ubuntu I have a new disk each six months to work from. Updating is modest since I am working from a new system that is at worst six months old. I could change to Sid and that is an option, if I can get past my other objections. I have used Sidux and that is an option, as is SimplyMEPIS.

At this point I would like to have Canonical see the light and distance itself from Mono and Moonlight. I don’t see that happening and time is running out for me. I will stick with Ubuntu or Kubuntu through Karmic Koala, but I don’t see much hope as things stand. Right now Canonical and Novell are too close to each other philosophically for my comfort. Gnome is a lost cause, IMO.

There are many alternatives to Mono. There is absolutely no need to use it. There are alternatives to every Mono application that for the most part are better. There are alternative programming environments as well. Most applications are written without resorting to .Net or Mono. It is sheer laziness, IMO. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that if Mono did not exist then there would still be plenty of open source programmes. We have never needed short cuts before nor help from Microsoft.

I will never use Mono, just as I would never use Windows. Why use anything that is tainted when I can use something that is not? Mono and Novell are tainted and will be forever in my eyes. They are reminders that I don’t need on my computer that Microsoft is opposed to me and my way of thinking. They have never cared about me. They never will. I don’t want to entertain for a microsecond the idea that they do. If you do then you are only fooling yourself and Canonical is too if they do not see such an obvious threat to open source.  Microsoft always acts out of self interest and nothing they do should be taken at face value.

New joomla install would show following:

existing admin login to  joomla installations were not authenticating.

Soln=====>

Compare the following in php.ini

Working configuration
#############################

[root@server  root]# grep session. /usr/local/lib/php.ini
session.save_handler = files
; variable in order to use PHP’s session functions.
;     session.save_path = “N;/path”
; where N is an integer.  Instead of storing all the session files in
; store the session data in those directories.  This is useful if you
; a more efficient layout for servers that handle lots of sessions.
;         You can use the script in the ext/session dir for that purpose.
;         use subdirectories for session storage
;session.save_path = /tmp
session.use_cookies = 1
; attacks which involve passing session ids in URLs; defaults to 0.
; session.use_only_cookies = 1
; Name of the session (used as cookie name).
session.name = PHPSESSID
; Initialize session on request startup.
session.auto_start = 0
session.cookie_lifetime = 0
session.cookie_path = /
session.cookie_domain =
session.serialize_handler = php
; on every session initialization.
session.gc_probability = 1
session.gc_divisor     = 100
session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440
; NOTE: If you are using the subdirectory option for storing session files
;       (see session.save_path above), then garbage collection does *not*
;       setting session.gc_maxlifetime to 1440 (1440 seconds = 24 minutes):
;          cd /path/to/sessions; find -cmin +24 | xargs rm
; to initialize a session variable in the global scope, albeit register_globals
session.bug_compat_42 = 1
session.bug_compat_warn = 1
; HTTP_REFERER has to contain this substring for the session to be
session.referer_check =
session.entropy_length = 0
; Specified here to create the session id.
session.entropy_file =
;session.entropy_length = 16
;session.entropy_file = /dev/urandom
session.cache_limiter = nocache
session.cache_expire = 180
; – User may send URL contains active session ID
; – URL that contains active session ID may be stored
; – User may access your site with the same session ID
session.use_trans_sid = 0
[root@server root]#

Things to check for
##########################

1) check that the above are set and check that:

2) /tmp has permissions 1777

3) /dev/urandom exists, if not create it with following commands:
mknod -m 644 /dev/urandom c 1 9
chown root:root /dev/random /dev/urandom

4) uncomment
;session.save_path = /tmp
in php.ini , if the sessions folder is not /tmp ( by default for cpanel server installation it is /tmp , however if php/apache is installed on a plain server, the sessions folder is usually /var/lib/php/sessions or something)

Reasons you need to switch to Linux now.

1. Aside from the standard, “Windows has more virii, more prone to attacks” ; Windows also uses a filesystem format that needs to be defragmented.  Your data is simply not as structurally sound.  Can you really afford to risk data loss?  Even backed-up data in a Windows environment is at risk.

2. Let’s face it Apple is great, but too expensive.  If you have the money for it, fine buy it.

3. Everything I want to do can be done in Linux.  That includes Photoshop.  I simply run it inside a virtualization software like Sun’s VirtualBox.  Some may argue that’s not using linux but in essence it is,  Linux is running VirtualBox which in turn is allowing me to use Photoshop.

4. The argument that Linux has no games just does not hold up anymore.  Many games rune fine under WINE and there are more and more gaming software companies supporting Linux.  ie. ID Software (Quake Live and other ported games)

5. More and more vendors are seeing the advantage of Linux and it’s popularity rising quickly;  they are beginning to offer more hardware support.  ie. HP and their printer support!

So again, why are you still spending money on an operating system that is not really necessary?

Just say NO to proprietary operating systems!!!

If you finally “see the light” and are going to make the switch,  contrary to popular belief,  I would NOT start with Ubuntu.  The reason I say that is despite the fact they have made a great effort and make a great distribution,  it is just not ready for beginners.   You will need to configure some things and they do change things way too often and I feel it suffers from “too many hands in the pot” syndrome;  in my opinion.  (My opinion comes from over 3 years of using it.)

You would do well to start off with a Linux distribution such as PCLinux or openSUSE.  Both of these i’ve found require less initial work / setup than other distribution choices out there.

In conclusion, what you decide to do if anything really means what is best for you.  If you feel you just won’t be able to get used to a new OS, then you really need try it and see how similar some of the desktop environments operate and you don’t really need to be spending money for it.

Todos estamos acostumbrados a la guerra típica entre Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera y IE. Cabe destacar que Firefox es un navegador bastante extensible con sus complementos (addons) y sus themes, pero muchas veces echamos en falta ese “toque” que haga a un navegador personal y completo sin tener que andar buscando por Internet lo necesario.

Pues bien, aquí entra Wyzo 3, un navegador Multimedia (Y quedaros con ésto último) basado en Mozilla Firefox que ofrece bastantes características de serie y las infinitas que se pueden añadir ya que, los addons para Firefox funcionan igualmente en Wyzo 3.

Mediante complementos, Wyzo nos ofrece descargas BitTorrent integradas en el propio navegador, descargas 10x veces más rápidas mediante Multi-Fuentes, una theme (Apariencia) única y bastante agradable para los ojos y para el uso cotidiano del navegador, cambio de pestañas más eficaz gracias a una interfaz que facilita los cambios entre pestañas, reconoce los movimientos de ratón para realizar las tareas más comunes (Cerrar pestaña, ir Atrás, recargar, etcétera), CoolIris que nos deslumbra con un aspecto brillante para mantenernos al día en cuanto a noticias del mundo, videojuegos, vídeos de diferentes típos etcétera.

Yo particularmente estoy encantado con él, aunque con la última versión hay un problema con las actualizaciones de los complementos, se soluciona tan solo con desactivar temporalmente CoolIris (Seguirá funcionando!) hasta que los propios desarrolladores publiquen la próxima versión. Por el momento no hay versión para Linux disponible, pero se espera que para la próxima versión esté disponible. Hasta la fecha de este post, está disponible para Mac OS X y para Windows.

Descarga Wyzo 3 desde la página web Oficial

Cualquier comentario sobre vuestra experiencia con el navegador será bienvenida.

Esta vez, os traigo un artículo que leyendo en UbuntuLife, me he dicho hay que postearlo.

Pues bien, se trata de un gestor de paquetes para Debian (ó Distribuciones Derivadas como Ubuntu, etcétera).  ¿Qué novedad tiene frente al típico Gestor de Paquetes Gráficos? Pues, éste incluye imágenes sobre los propios programas a instalar, así podemos echar un vistazo a la “pinta” que tiene el mismo. Mediante los DebTags (Etiquetas  de Software en Debian), muestra una lista de programas que estén en la misma categoría.

La instalación es símple, debemos activar los repositorios Universe (En Ubuntu) y escribir en el terminal:

~$ sudo apt-get install goplay

Los comandos que usaremos serán:

goplay: Muestra una lísta de Juegos disponibles.
goadmin: Muestra la lísta de paquetes de Administración.
golearn: Muestra la lísta de paquetes Educativos.
gonet: Muestra la lísta de paquetes para Internet.
gooffice: Muestra paquetes de office (OpenOffice, Hojas de Cálculo, etc).
gosafe: Muestra la lísta de paquetes de Seguridad (iptables, ufw, firestarter, etcétera).
goweb: Muestra paquetes relacionados con el Web.

Artículo Original de UbuntuLife

… and You Can Make It Happen

I use Ubuntu. So do many other users. I don’t use it for that reason. I use it mainly because it works for me and my particular hardware best and because I like the community. I came to my decision by exclusion. I have used just about everything out there. So why would an Ubuntu user want other distros to have a higher profile?

I like choice. It is the strength of Linux. I don’t want everybody to use the same distribution. I started with Ubuntu years ago when it was a relative small player and am not about to switch because others have jumped on the bandwagon. But as other distros grow in strength, so will Ubuntu. Fedora challenges Ubuntu to do better and Ubuntu’s success drives Fedora in the same way. It is good to have a spirit of fair and friendly competition. I am sure that Canonical has noticed the success of Mint which is based on Ubuntu. This causes them to keep their mission statement fresh and to re-visit every so often.

I don’t think that Canonical resents the success of Mint in the same way that Debian users resent the success of Ubuntu. If they do, they don’t let it show. To do so, weakens you. It causes you to lose your focus and depletes your energy on something that is out of your control. Instead they focus on producing a better user experience.

I am an Ubuntu user today, but that may not always be the case. It isn’t that I am worried about Canonical or Ubuntu, but like all users I have changing needs and hardware. So, I like to keep an open mind and to be aware of what other distributions are doing. It gives me a broader appreciation of what Linux has to offer. I am an Ubuntu user, but I am first and foremost a Linux advocate.

I said that my decision to use Ubuntu was by exclusion. I started with Mandrake (now Mandriva) and moved to Fedora. I finally settled on MEPIS which I used for a couple of years before switching to Ubuntu. I have used Lindows, Linspire and have seen many distros come and go. I have tried for months at a time Xandros and SUSE. I multi-boot and frequently run several distros at once. I am always open to a better experience. I use little known distros and all of the main ones. It makes no difference to me.

At first I did not like Ubuntu, but it grew on me and it got better along the way. All distros have their weaknesses. I am too impatient to use Gentoo. Fedora is distinct, but I find it difficult to like. I find PCLinuxOS, too limiting. I find SUSE to be too unstable on my hardware. I find Debian to be too old fashioned. I like Mandriva, but it does not work well with my equipment. I find MEPIS to be closest to Ubuntu. I have tried Mint, but don’t like it.

There is something that I like about them all, too. I like that Gentoo allows me to tailor things to suit my needs. I like Fedora because it is great looking and it challenges the way I use Linux. I like PCLinuxOS because it works so well. I like the look and feel of SUSE. I like that Debian champions free software. I like Mandriva because it has great tools and is kept up to date. I like MEPIS for its simplicity and well roundedness. I like Mint because it adds functionality to Ubuntu’s solid base.

There is a distro for just about every type of user. Ubuntu has broad appeal for many reasons, but chiefly because it has the largest community. It has the most help. Even if you don’t use Ubuntu you can often find online help in their forums that will help you to solve your problem.

This brings me to my point about other distros developing a higher profile. If they want to compete and attract new users, and most do, then they will have to increase their presence. I think that too often the users of other distros get side tracked by Ubuntu’s looming presence and they think that the way to attract users is to strike back against the Borg. I get that. The problem is that it does not work. Their writing negative articles against Ubuntu only increases Ubuntu’s presence.

I also think that new users get sucked into the vortex simply because Ubuntu has such a large presence. They may not know much about other distros, but they know that Ubuntu is the biggest name in desktop Linux. Whether that is true or not is irrelevant. It only needs to be perceived that way to make it real and most newcomers hear about Ubuntu because it is the first distro that comes up when you Google anything to do with Linux.

Every distro needs to develop its own base on its own terms. Since each distro has its own niche and philosophy that is the beginning and you grow out from there. I personally would love to write articles on various distros. But I am an outsider and it just does not feel real. You need to understand the community and ethos to write the kind of things that I would like to write. This is also why most critics of Ubuntu fail to score points. They do not understand the Ubuntu community and just don’t get what Canonical is trying to achieve.

If you are a user of PCLinuxOS, then need you to write and share why and how you use it. You don’t have to be an expert. Some of the best articles that I have read have told simple truths from a newbie’s perspective. Some of the worst have been people trying to do more than they are capable of. It shows. There is a lack of realism and genuineness. Some people can write great technical articles. I can’t. I have some technical ability, but it does not feel right for me. I am an educator by training so I try to cut through jargon and to break things down simply.

Maybe you use Fedora, but don’t feel comfortable writing articles. Then you can read the blogs of others and respond to what others write, giving encouragement and helpful criticism, always remembering that you represent your community. You want to raise the profile and the interest in Fedora, so the key is to keep it positive and real. You want others to think after reading what you wrote, that Fedora is worth exploring because its advocates are interesting and positive. You want to keep your favourite distro in the news any way that you can.

I have been an outspoken critic of the Debian community in the past. I find much negativity in their forums and I don’t like their love it or leave it attitude. If you use Debian, then perhaps there is a place for you to be a positive force and to polish their image. It is simple things such as putting yourself in the place of the other person. It takes courage to ask for help. Dealing with newbies takes patience and understanding. If you want them to adopt your philosophy then you need to educate, not lecture. Debian has much potential. It can be a real bright spot for the GNU/Linux world.

Mandriva has an inferiority complex. It wants to run with the big boys, but has not quite made the transition from a commercial distribution in the way that Novell has with SUSE. It lacks the server and enterprise base and has found making money from desktop Linux to be a challenge. They feel that they have a great product, and they do, but that it does not get the recognition that it deserves. It doesn’t. The solution is to develop community the way that Canonical has.

This was Canonical’s starting point and that is why it has exploded. Mandriva in contrast is doing it after the fact. Desktop Linux has no retail presence. It spreads by word of mouth. Once you have a large user base then you have more options. You can then explore your commercial side because you can point to your success.

MEPIS and Mint are smaller distributions. Both have opportunities to grow by exploiting apparent weaknesses in their parent distribution. For MEPIS this means Debian and for Mint it means Ubuntu. By offering more functionality and by adding restricted drivers and codecs, they are making it easier for newbies to adopt Linux. This is something that Debian and Ubuntu could do, but have chosen not to, for philosophical reasons. There are many other distributions who have a similar approach and have developed a solid following. What these distributions need is for satisfied users to speak up. Mention your success and praise your distribution. Keep it positive and your distribution will grow.

Critics of Ubuntu, accuse it of raiding the user base of other distributions. This has never been their intention. I think that these distributions have let their users drift away by neglecting their own responsibilities. It is easier to blame Ubuntu than to accept that you are making yourself irrelevant. What Ubuntu has succeeded in doing is to make the whole pie larger. Many of their new users are Linux converts. The Linux pie is growing modestly and Ubuntu is getting more than its share due to its online presence and support.

The challenge for other distros is to attract new users to your distribution. If you focus on Ubuntu and taking away from them then you face a more difficult challenge as momentum is with them. They have an established base and it is growing exponentially. As more is written about Ubuntu and its kin whether it is for or against them, then it gives them an even bigger presence.

I hope that other distributions learn from what Canonical has done. They need to develop the community first and to pay attention to the needs of users. You can be true to your principles and attract new users. In fact, I would think that a distribution such as Debian has more to gain than to lose. People want to hear about free software. It is the notion of freedom that draws people in. They won’t necessarily buy into the whole package right away, but they will be attracted to you. You can be your own worst enemy by prostheletizing. You need to integrate and educate instead.

I am convinced that there is enough room for growth that we don’t need to raid each other’s base and engage in FUD against our own kind. I think that the place to start is with improving the image of the distribution that you use by ceaselessly promoting it in whatever way that you can. This can only benefit Linux at large and make us all stronger in the end.

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I read a lot of news feeds. Sometimes too many. I admit it. About 10% of what I read is new. Most of it is just regurgitated material and recycled themes. The most tiresome ones have to be the my-distro-is-better-than-yours. Only slightly less tiresome are the Linux vs. Windows ones. Both lines of discussion are low on entertainment value and offer little information.

Let’s face it. Most of these distro bashing pieces are politically motivated and have very little to say. The person has an axe to grind or feels that their distro does not get enough attention so they write a thinly veiled attack piece that poses as a review of the competing distro.

The problem is that there is no such thing as a best distro. Of course you use the distro because it works best for you, but that does not make it the best. Also when a distro does not work for you, it does not mean that it won’t work well for others. It may mean that your hardware is not suited for some reason or that you may not be as proficient as you think that you are. Writing a high profile attack piece may just be a way of advertising your own ineptitude or stupidity.

You have a problem with distro A so you assume that everybody has the same problem or that we all want to know about your problems. We don’t. Most of us are too busy enjoying ourselves with our own favourite distro and many users are using the distro that you are trashing and we are probably having more success than you, which defeats your whole argument and makes us smarter than you. Your hard luck story just does not interest us, so keep it to yourself. Please!

If something does not work, don’t complain. Use something else or if you want to complain do it in a constructive manner by going to the developers rather going public with it. Except that is not your game, is it?

You do not want to really improve the product. Your goal is to make it appear to be problematic so others will not use it. That’s what I mean when with being political. Your goal is to influence others to move away from one product and toward the one that you use. You have not revealed a bad product. You have revealed a bad attitude. Namely, yours.

We don’t need users like you.  We need people to test distros and provide feedback for the developers. Each distro has its way to do that. Going public with problems does not help them and it does not help us either. Nobody likes to listen to complaints. It has no entertainment value. When was the last time anybody went to a movie or watched a show that features a list of complaints. Why would anyone care to read that you have a problem? That’s what help forums are for. Ever heard of them?

A good review features the strengths and weaknesses in an unbiased way. You will never be able to pull this off so try to be what you are, a propagandist. However, a good propagandist knows how to frame things so the the reader will form the opinion that you want. You don’t have to give it to them. So once again you reveal your deficiencies. You aren’t even a good propagandist.

So what are you? You are a hack and a whiner. Admit it and you will feel better. Then perhaps you will find something useful to do, such as write pieces that extol the virtues of the distro that you want us to use. Attack campaigns don’t work, especially on the internet where there is a wealth of content and much of it is entertaining and informative. So, don’t add to the drivel; it wastes bandwidth and time.

All of this whining and complaining serves to undermine Linux in general. It creates division. It promotes the idea that we can’t get along. It gives the wrong idea of the Linux community. You see, most people who come to Linux actually do find help and are grateful to the very community that you are trying to undermine. I see it every day in the help forums that I frequent.

Finally, you are giving ammunition to those who do not want Linux to succeed. Your petty goal of trying to direct us has the opposite effect. It drives people away. People avoid conflict. It will either send them back to where they came from or scare the heck out of them. Most of them are uncomfortable and vulnerable to begin with and you, unnecessarily, cause them to wonder what they are getting into.

Whenever you put down another distro you are working on behalf of the competition. Not just another distro, but another operating system. They would pay you to do what you are willing to do for free. You might as well be in their employ. Then we would all be able to call you a sell out as well.

The way to strengthen Linux is to work for the developers of the distro that you like, to strengthen the community and to help others. The way to strengthen the position of your favourite distribution is to promote it with good public relations and to advertise its merits. Stay positive and we all get better.

If you genuinely aspire to being a reviewer, then you need to sharpen your skills. You need to be willing to use the distribution for a time and to get to know its strengths and weaknesses and you need to review both. Any criticism should bear in mind that many people use what what you may be condemning and that many developers work for the project. When you dump on a distro then you are in the end dumping on people. If that makes you feel good, then see a doctor.

Este artículo lo escribí como una ‘especie’ de ayuda para ‘generar’ unas nociones básicas, no espereis que dentro de él os revele los secretos más profundos de la élite, tan solo intenta ser de ayuda para cualquier novato que quiere aprender un poco de seguridad informática, por ejemplo como mantener unas pautas a la hora de elegir contraseñas, hábitos seguros etcétera.

Está subido a RapidShare, si teneis cualquier problema a la hora de descargarlo avisarme y lo intentaré colocar en otro lado.

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