Episode 67 - Bring out your dead Linux Desktops...

Running Time: 00:48:52

1) Introduction

Joe explains how awesome Puppet and automated builds
MS makes a stupid contest, looses, refuses to make good on the loss, then decides it should pay up

2) News

Why Linux on the Desktop is Dead...Oh yeah and the rest of the story...
HP Doubles down on a Linux Future...
Are you using insecure open source components
Sharing patents encourages innovation

3) Conclusion

Recommendations for People to interview
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Are you practicing Safe Open Source?

There is an interesting and snarky account of a recent report over at marketware.com about how secure/insecure Open Source software is.  The authors of the study for instance seem to think a lot of patches really fast is a bad thing.  I don't know about you but I want my stuff patched and working securely.  The article is great and a fun read.  For more from us on the topic check out our discussion on this weeks podcast.

HP Doubles down on Linux...

HP has been seeing an interesting trend in business.  Both Windows and Linux are more and more becoming key parts in critical infrastructure.(Yeah we know DUHHHH)  They want to act on this and have choosen to put some money into Linux.  Their first big thing is joining up with Red Hat to work on kernel issues with their hardware.  We are sure there is more to come and welcome HP to the Linux fold.  Check out the full article over at theinquirer.net.

One of the simplest ways to tunnel your traffic securely...

So the folks over at LinuxJournal.com wrote up a great tutorial for tunneling through SSH.  What's so great about that?  Well it's an easy way to do simple stuff securely on your home or office network.  You only need to open up port 22 for SSH and point it to an SSH Server.  Then you can point to a local port and use SSH to get it to your destination server securely.

Wait...Can't someone just login to my machine that way?  If you take percausions like using only SSH Keys and not passwords and use a gawk script like this one over at everythingbash.com.  This script will create and send you a cool list of everyone who has and has tried logging in. 

WARNING!!!! I have had several customers and friends notice that their SSH Servers just get pounded with people trying to connect using default or bogus accounts.  So be sure to disable, remove or set the shell to /bin/false any account you aren't using.

Do you want to Hangout and Talk GIT and Linux?

Git It On Tuesday, March 27 at 9pm EST

The Crew and I will be joining up with Mike Jansen in a Google+ Hangout right after we record the next podcast.  We plan to discuss git, linux, and other related topics.  We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible.  So come on over there and join us.

This is informal and all are welcome to join. If you have any specific topics you'd like to discuss, comment on this post.