debian users

Most Suse users are familiar with the YaST graphic interface, but sometimes the quicker way to install a RPM package is from command line with the tool named zypper.

This tool is similar to apt-get tool that Debian users use to install .deb packages and it uses already configured repositories to fetch packages.

'DebianDayPT 2008' took place in the University of Aveiro, Portugal
on the Debian's 15th anniversary (16-Aug-2008).

The event, attended by more than 50 Debian users/friends, had several
presentations about Debian

As has been widely reported, the maintainers of Debian's OpenSSL packages made some errors recently that have potentially compromised the security of any sshd-equipped system used remotely by Debian users.

System administrators may wish to purge authorized_key files of public keys generated since 2006 by affected client machines.

A weakness has been discovered in the random number generator used by OpenSSL on Debian and Ubuntu systems.

As a result of this weakness, certain encryption keys are much more common than they should be, such that an attacker could guess the key through a brute-force attack given minimal knowledge of the system.

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