RIPLinuX 11.4 Ready
Recovery Is Possible (RIP) Linux 11.4 is a boot, rescue, backup, maintenance, as well as general purpose system on CD or USB.
RIP supports file-system such as Reiserfs, Reiser4, Btrfs, Ext2/3/4, HFS+, ISO-9660, NILFS2, UDF, XFS, JFS,UFS2, CIFS, MS DOS, NTFS and more. RIP also contains many utilities for system recovery and has IDE/SCSI/SATA,RAID, LVM2, and Ethernet/Wireless network support.
RIP uses the 2.6.35.6 kernel and supports both 32bit and 64bit kernels. There is SSL support for fetchmail, curl, wget, ssh/sshd, mutt, links, lynx, msmtp,tmsnc, slrn, epic5, lftp, and FireFOX.
Updates in 11.4 include: hdparm 9.37, wiper 3.3,gdisk 0.6.14, GParted 0.8.0, FireFOX 3.6.13, e2fsprogs 1.41.14, ntfs-3g 2011.1.15AR.1, partclone 0.2.17, fsarchiver 0.6.12, ddrescue 1.14, ncftp 3.2.5, testdisk/photorec 6.12-WIP, xorriso 1.0.0, util-linux-ng 2.19, coreutils 8.10, memtest86+ 4.20 and option to install Opera was removed.
Release notes and changelog are available for individuals wanting download or find out more about RIPLinuX 11.4.
Issue 172/2015
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News
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Old Vulnerabilities Are Kept Alive Through Bad Configuration
HP's annual Cyber Risk report offers a bleak look at the state of IT.
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Linus Torvalds Announces Linux 4.0
But what do the big numbers really mean?
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Microsoft Frees CoreCLR
.NET Core execution engine is the basis for cross-platform .NET implementations.
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New Trojan Attacks Linux Servers
The Xnote trojan hides itself on the target system and will launch a variety of attacks on command.
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Cisco Releases Annual Security Report
Spammers go low-volume, and 90% of IE browsers are unpatched.
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Zero Day Exploits Target Flash
Adobe scrambles to release patches for vulnerable Flash Player.
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Intel Unveils Compute Stick
Four-inch-long computer on a stick lets you boot a full Linux system from any HDMI display device.
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Obama Proposes Personal Data Notification Law
New statute would require companies to report break-ins to consumers.
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TGXf Project Warns of File Transfer through Screen Pixels
Weird data transfer technique avoids all standard security measures.
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Industry Giants Announce a Fix for the Password Mess
FIDO alliance declares the beginning of the end for old-style login authentication.