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(LinuxWorld) — With all the chatter accompanying two WINE-related announcements over the past week or so, I thought it might be a good time to take a long look at the WINE project to see what all the fuss has been about. TransGaming's announcement of the availability of WineX 3.0 got a lot of pixel dust, but that wasn't the only recent news about WINE. The cold, dead hand of the Microsoft monopoly also reached out to touch the project when Whil Hentzen, a leading proponent of Visual FoxPro (VFP) development on Linux, was contacted by a Microsoft manager and told it was a violation of the VFP EULA to run it on Linux. Reminiscing over WINE The WINE project has a long and stable history. Bob Amstadt was the original project coordinator. According to Amstadt's posts in comp... (more)

How to install PureSecure, the painless IDS

(LinuxWorld) -- A few readers felt I missed the mark with my piece on ACID, the Analysis Console for Intrusion Databases I wrote about a couple of weeks ago. (See Resources for a link.) To correct that situation, this week look at the PureSecure Total Intrusion Detection System from Demarc. By the way, while ACID is free software (as in speech), Demarc's PureSecure is not. There is a fre... (more)

Three reasons for newbie-centric culture shock

(LinuxWorld) — I suppose it happens to all of us to some degree, but I know for sure it has to me: the more comfortable I've gotten with Linux, the less attention I pay to the complaints of those who try it but don't like it. I do acknowledge Linux is not the right choice for everyone, but the fact that I've personally gone from point A to point B leads me to pay little attention t... (more)

The Evolution continues

(LinuxWorld) -- A couple of weeks ago I wrote about moving from Sylpheed (a wonderful e-mail client) to Evolution. I promised then that I would follow up after I had had a chance to put a few more miles on Evo. This week's column keeps that promise. First, I want to go off-topic for two other items. I asked readers for help last week in configuring Sorcerer on my Sony notebook computer so... (more)

How to detect intruders with ACID

(LinuxWorld) -- I wanted to try ACID ever since someone rooted my server last year. Mind you, not the hallucinogen LSD, though at the time I might have been tempted. The ACID I'm talking about is the Analysis Console for Intrusion Databases. It allows you to display and examine alerts from Snort in almost real-time. Snort, of course, is the wonderful open source Intrusion Detection Syste... (more)