(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)
(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)
(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)
(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)
(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)
Joe Barr is a freelance journalist covering Linux, open source and network security. His 'Version Control' column has been a regular feature of Linux.SYS-CON.com since its inception. As far as we know, he is the only living journalist whose works have appeared both in phrack, the legendary underground zine, and IBM Personal Systems Magazine.
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