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Backtrack: Linux security distribution
February 10, 2010 by christian · Leave a Comment
BackTrack is a Linux-based penetration testing arsenal that aids security professionals in the ability to perform assessments in a purely native environment dedicated to hacking. Regardless if you’re making BackTrack your primary operating system, booting from a LiveDVD, or using your favorite thumbdrive, BackTrack has been customized down to every package, kernel configuration, script and patch solely for the purpose of the penetration tester.
BackTrack is intended for all audiences from the most savvy security professionals to early newcomers to the information security field. BackTrack promotes a quick and easy way to find and update the largest database of security tool collection to-date.
Website: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/
Eucalyptus: Cloud computing
February 9, 2010 by christian · Leave a Comment
EUCALYPTUS is actually an acronym for Elastic Utility Computing Architecture Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems. What does that mean? Simply, Eucalyptus is an open source software application that implements cloud computing within the datacenter. Eucalyptus provides a highly robust and scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution for Service Providers and Enterprises. Eucalyptus turns your IT resources into an on-premise cloud that is compatible with Amazon AWS (EC2, S3, EBS). Eucalyptus open source runs on multiple Linux distributions and supports Xen and KVM hypervisors.
Website: http://open.eucalyptus.com/
CentOS: the Community ENTerprise Operating System
January 26, 2010 by christian · Leave a Comment
CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible. (CentOS mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork.) CentOS is free.CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible. (CentOS mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork.) CentOS is free.
CentOS is developed by a small but growing team of core developers. In turn the core developers are supported by an active user community including system administrators, network administrators, enterprise users, managers, core Linux contributors and Linux enthusiasts from around the world.
CentOS has numerous advantages over some of the other clone projects including: an active and growing user community, quickly rebuilt, tested, and QA’ed errata packages, an extensive mirror network, developers who are contactable and responsive, multiple free support avenues including IRC Chat, Mailing Lists, Forums, a dynamic FAQ. Commercial support is offered via a number of vendors.
Website: http://www.centos.org
Fedora: Linux Operating System
January 26, 2010 by christian · Leave a Comment
Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software. Fedora is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute.It is built by people across the globe who work together as a community: the Fedora Project. The Fedora Project is open and anyone is welcome to join.
Company website: http://www.fedoraproject.org
Ubuntu: Linux Operating System
January 26, 2010 by christian · Leave a Comment
Ubuntu is an operating system built by a worldwide team of expert developers. It contains all the applications you need: a web browser, office suite, media apps, instant messaging and much more.
Ubuntu is an open-source alternative to Windows and Office.
Ubuntu is free of charge, along with its regular enterprise releases and security updates
Instant access to thousands of free and open-source applications. Categories include Education, Games, Sound and Video, Graphics, Programming and Office.
Ubuntu comes with full commercial support from Canonical
Company website: http://www.ubuntu.com
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The goal of this website is to give an end to end open source solution for a typical small company including Telephony, Document management, Customer Relation Application, Networking, Remote access, Desktop solutions and so on.
Although only the tools/applications have been listed on the website for the moment, a complete network diagram and individual how-to articles will follow.
Please note that for most of the installation instructions, we will not re-invent the wheel. A large number of very competent experts have already written how-to articles, we will just refer you to those. We will only document the missing links between the different components or if we feel that some installations could be better documented.
The KinDev team.
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Please note that the text for each of the blog post is taken from their respective websites. The KinDev team have experimented with those tools at different occasions. Your need and requirements could be different than the ones identified by our team for a specific situation, please take the time to read and understand the tool/application features before starting to install in a production environment.
We hope that you will have as much fun as we have discovering, installing and using those tools/applications and please do not forget to donate to the respective open source volunteers that have changed the IT landscape for ever.
The KinDev team.