Linux kernel 2.5.1 released
Linux 2.5.1 continued the experimental kernel series and was distributed via the well-known mirror servers.
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Projects, Linux, networks, systems, finds and internet standards from 2001.
RFC 3168: ECN: Signalling congestion without packet loss
RFC 3168 lets routers mark congestion in IP packets before queues have to drop packets. Packet loss is an expensive congestion signal and not strictly necessary. Cooperative endpoints can significantly reduce latency under load.
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At IFA 2001 Hitachi showed the Flora-ie 55mi web pad with a Transmeta Crusoe processor and Midori Linux. The 1.25 kilogram device had a 10.4 inch touchscreen, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, two USB ports and a modem. It was to run for three and a half hours with the standard battery and seven hours with an additional battery.
Read the full postNew security hole in internet routers
In 2001 the configuration password of DrayTek’s Vigor2000 and Vigor2200 DSL and ISDN routers could be spied out from the local network. Attackers on the LAN could use it to reconfigure the router; only firmware 1.07 helped. The hole could not be exploited from the internet and was therefore less dangerous than the insecure default configuration of many routers.
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In 2001 Scott Fluhrer, Itsik Mantin and Adi Shamir showed a passive attack on the Wi-Fi encryption WEP. It exploits weak keys of the RC4 stream cipher and the initialisation vector transmitted in plain text; the effort only grows linearly with the key length. heise advised always putting a further layer of protection such as a VPN on top of WEP, but not PPTP.
Read the full postFirewall FAQ: Security is a maintained concept
Lutz Donnerhacke’s FAQ explains firewalls as a security concept that has to be maintained continuously and clears up common misconceptions about NAT, packet filters and desktop firewalls. The preserved page calls itself the FAQ of the newsgroup de.comp.security.firewall. The available version carries the version number 0.38.
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CUPS unified print services across Linux desktops and heterogeneous Unix servers.
Read the full postSuSE Linux 7.1 with kernel 2.4 from 10 February
In January 2001 SuSE announced that it would ship SuSE Linux 7.1 on 10 February with the newly released kernel 2.4. The new kernel brought better multiprocessor operation, up to 64 GByte of memory addressing, a 64-bit file system and better USB, ISA plug-and-play and ACPI support. The proven kernel 2.2.18 was included as well, along with glibc 2.2 and KDE 2.0.1.
Read the full postLinux kernel 2.4.0 is here
In January 2001 Linus Torvalds released Linux kernel 2.4.0, announced in an email with the laconic subject “And oh, btw...”. In ironic words Torvalds justified the release by saying that things would not get any better if the same people kept testing. The version had long been awaited.
Read the full postLinus Torvalds releases Linux kernel 2.4.0-prerelease
On New Year’s Eve 2000 Linus Torvalds published Linux kernel 2.4.0-prerelease, after originally promising the finished version for 2000. Kernel 2.4.0 was to be the first major update since 2.2.0 of January 1999; Wired had put it at number 4 of its “Vaporware 2000” list. Test versions had been available since May 2000, and USB support had already been backported to 2.2.18.
Read the full postFreeBSD: a free Unix for servers and networks
The historical talk presents FreeBSD as a free Unix system with a base system developed as a whole, the Ports Collection and a strong focus on networking. A coherently maintained base system can simplify operations and troubleshooting. Licence, development model and packaging shape a system as much as its kernel.
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