S0E10: "Jthan Tries to Edit"

Posted 2015-06-29 03:52
Modified 2018-07-06 17:23
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The death of Mandriva, a social media botnet running on consumer routers, Solaris, alternative firmware for consumer routers, and some games that run on GNU/Linux (plus the fun goodness of two high-profile compromises). This is the first episode Jthan tried his hand at editing. I ended up fixing a fair bit. :P

• Notes
• Errata
• Music

Notes

• So Mandriva is dead
  • Because of staffing, Jthan. Not quality/type of product or going bankrupt.
• But there are three forks you can check out…
  • Mageia is definitely the most popular, by far
  • Jthan also mentions PCLinuxOS
  • And he also mentions OpenMandriva
• You may want to read more about Mandriva (the company and the product).
• Jthan brings up Gitolite, which we’ll definitely cover in another episode.
  • And the documentation he references is here
• And I mentioned WinAmp
• Information on Moose, the “router worm”, can be found here and here
  • You may also want to keep tabs on RouterSecurity’s bug list
  • The list of companies’ products affected are: Actiontec, Hik Vision, Netgear, Synology, TP-Link, ZyXEL, and Zhone
• Thankfully, Solaris/OpenSolaris is dead (and has been for a while)
  • At least they gave us ZFS
• I mention Illumos, the maintained fork of (Open?)Solaris.
• Jthan mentions Solaris’ Zones
  • And I mention FreeBSD’s Jails
• He also mentions FMA, Fault Management Architecture
• Tomato firmware is based on the Linksys source code and the developer makes it available, but from what I understand the actual license is under a freeware level.
• I also mentioned the TOTALLY proprietary DD-WRT
• But I love OpenWRT
  • And the SDK
  • And the Image Builder
  • I mention B.A.T.M.A.N. Advanced
  • and CJDNS
• I also mention m0n0wall
  • and pfSense
• Jthan mentions Tektonic and Linode
  • And I mention Vultr, RamNode, and DigitalOcean
• I also throw down a mention for games.square-r00t.net/, which is still a work in progress.
  • But check out the game listings, as I mention all the games I reference in there
• Jthan mentions his horrible taste in games
  • Battlefield
  • Call of Duty
  • League of Legends (on WINE)
  • The most popular F/OSS Minecraft clone is Craft
  • I really wish Fortress Forever had a GNU/Linux native port.
  • Jthan also mentions Garry’s Mod
• I replaced the speakers in my laptop. Still making the static. :(
• Puppet 3.5.1 was released April 16, 2014 (3.5.0 was released April 3, 2014 and recalled April 4, 2014)
  • Puppet 4.2 was released just recently, June 24, 2015 (4.1 was released May 19, 2015)
• The OPM compromise has raised some serious questions
  • As has the LastPass compromise
    • I use Pass
  • I mention Perfect Forward Secrecy (or PFS)
  • and Moore’s Law

Errata

• Solaris’ initial public release was in June of 1992 (23 years ago). OpenSolaris’ initial public release was May 5, 2008.
• I forgot to mention it, but on the majority of my VPSes I run Nginx
• nickermire in our IRC points out that:

22:11:38 < nickermire> fyi r00t^2 lastpass doesn't force you to change your password after the breach. They just mention it once upon login the first time after the hack.

• LastPass, you secure bad and you should feel bad.

Music

Author r00t^2
Categories (Pilot Season)