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We take a look at remote desktop on Linux. We go behind the scenes to see how Linux can be used to remotely support business at scale as well as providing help to family and friends and round up the best solutions.

Plus is SteamOS diverging too far from Debian? LibreOffice has big online plans, Gnome 3.16 is out, tons of Kodi follow up & more!

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Chrome Remote Desktop

Relies on Google, scary message when installing on Ubuntu.

VNC

Great for testing but performance is terrible and requires router configuration. Only seems to work well if client and host are on the same machine (virtual host / guest)

TeamViewer

Native on Linux and other platforms, has android app, free for personal use, but expensive for business.

Screen Connect

Perfect for large support companies, doesn’t really require user to install software. Owner is in control of branding, fraction of the cost of Bomgar

Guacamole — HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop

Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC and RDP.
We call it clientless because no plugins or client software are required.
Thanks to HTML5, once Guacamole is installed on a server, all you need to access your desktops is a web browser.

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Desktop App Pick

Remmina

Remmina is a remote desktop client written in GTK+, aiming to be useful for system administrators and travellers, who need to work with lots of remote computers in front of either large monitors or tiny netbooks. Remmina supports multiple network protocols in an integrated and consistent user interface. Currently RDP, VNC, NX, XDMCP and SSH are supported.

Weekly Spotlight

OpenELEC

Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center (OpenELEC) is a
small Linux distribution built from scratch as a platform to turn your computer into a Kodi (previously XBMC) media center. OpenELEC is designed to make your system boot fast, and the install is so easy that anyone can turn a blank PC into a media machine in less than 15 minutes.

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Welcome LibreOffice Online

LibreOffice has been competing with the two giant companies Microsoft Office and Google docs. Here is another step from this open source community to make LibreOffice in reach of every platforms’ users. LibreOffice has announced the release of LibreOffice Online soon in near future. Open-Source fans are ready to welcome the efforts of The Document Foundation including IceWarp and Collabora Companies.

New SteamOS Beta

Valve has announced earlier today, March 25, the immediate availability for download and testing of a new Beta version for its awesome SteamOS Linux operating system for gamers. SteamOS Update 157 has been pushed to the Alchemist Beta channel a few hours ago and the ISO images are now available for download.

Gnome 3.16 Released

Version 3.16 of GNOME, the primary desktop environment for GNU/Linux operating systems has been released. Some major new features in this release include a overhauled notification system, an updated design of the calendar drop down and support for overlay scrollbars. Also, the grid view in Files has been improved with bigger thumbnail icons, making the appearance more attractive and the rows easier to read. A video is available which demonstrates the new version.

New Ubuntu Phone Flash Sale

Canonical confirmed a few minutes ago on their Twitter and Facebook accounts that a new flash sale of the BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition smartphone will take place tomorrow morning, on March 26, starting 9 AM CET (Central European Time). BQ already started shipping the Ubuntu phones to users from the European Union, so it should arrive quickly this time.

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Doing It de Raadt Way | BSD Now 6

chris — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 07:39:38 +0000

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We chat with OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt, and we\’ll show you how to securely run graphical applications in a jail. Then we get you caught up on all the latest news.

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HAMMER2 GSOC improvements merged

A student from the Google Summer of Code\’s patches were committed to upstream Dragonfly
It focuses mainly on compression and updating the I/O infrastructure to work with compression
The ability to boot from HAMMER2 volumes was also added
Check the show notes for a full list of additions and improvements
We\’ll have someone on the show to talk about HAMMER FS in the future

OSNews starts a \”BSD family\” segment

An OSNews reader decided to share some info about the BSDs
He\’s writing a three-part series covering FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD
Pretty good info for Linux switchers

pkgsrc-2013Q3 branch announcement

pkgsrc is similar to the ports concept, but for 21 different OSes
The pkgsrc developers make a new release every three months.
13184 total packages for AMD64
If there\’s any interest, we\’ll try to get a pkgsrc tutorial written in the future

PCBSD 9.2 released

Shortly after the official FreeBSD 9.2 release, PCBSD follows up
Highlights include bootable ZFS boot environments, a rewritten life-preserver utility for backups, improved pkgng support, updated appcafe, major improvements to warden, a GUI pkgng management system, filesystem-based encryption for home directories and much more

Interview – Theo de Raadt – deraadt@openbsd.org

Tutorial

Jailed VNC sessions

VNC lets you run GUI applications remotely and detach from them like tmux
Running it in a jail provides another layer of security
Can be used for isolated web browser instances and lots of other things
If you don\’t know how to set up a jail, fear not – we\’ve already got a jail tutorial in the works

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vBSDCon October 25-27th
- At the Dulles Hyatt in Virginia
- Hybrid unconference, good mix of formal and informal
Speakers include: Baptiste Daroussin, Devin Teske, Scott Long, Luigi Rizzo, and David Chisnall
iXsystems hosts FreeBSD Anniversary party – November 2nd
Celebrating FreeBSD’s 20th anniversary
Saturday, November 2nd at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco
Same location as the 10th anniversary party
Notable FreeBSD figures will contribute words of wisdom on the past, present, and future of FreeBSD

News Roundup

Curve25519 patch for OpenSSH

Because of recent NSA news, someone implemented an alternative key exchange mechanism
It uses Curve25519 instead of the traditional Diffie-Hellman
Comes from the developer of libssh and is already implemented there

FreeBSD 10-ALPHA5 is out

Includes the big removal of BIND
More GNU stuff removed
Bhyve and XEN improvements
Some LLVM fixes

M:Tier offering \”Long Time Support\” for OpenBSD ports

Starting with 5.4, M:Tier will be offering a subscription for LTS support, in addition to their free 6 month version
OpenBSD releases are only supported for 1 year normally (5.2 becomes unsupported when 5.4 comes out, etc.)
This model makes it easier to keep your ports patched for security in a corporate environment

Ohio Linuxfest talks uploaded

The OLF 2013 talks have been uploaded
Includes Kirk Mckusick\’s keynote about building an open source community and Ken Moore\’s talk about lots of new PCBSD stuff

Theo\’s absence and other updates

In an uncharacteristic manner, Theo started a thread on misc@ instead of finishing it
For the last year, he\’s not been as involved in OpenBSD development as he should be
He\’s been busy with setting up an Internet Exchange in Calgary
Also mentions some troubles with an imposter Twitter account (which is now suspended)

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Easy Linux Remote Desktop | LAS s28e03

chris — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 14:03:43 +0000

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Our straightforward approach to setting up Remote access to a Linux, Windows, or Mac. Control your desktop from your mobile device, or another computer.

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Splashtop Streamer for Linux | Splashtop

Splashtop Streamer is a high-performance audio-video streaming server, enabling remote access from an Android device (tablet/phone) or an iOS device (iPad/iPhone/iPod). You can connect within a Local Area Network or through a cross-network or Internet connection.

Due to its efficient protocol, algorithms and optimizations, Splashtop has been shown in performance benchmarks to deliver up to 15x higher video frame rates and up to 10x lower latency times than its competition. Splashtop sessions are secured with SSL and 256-bit AES encryption, allowing it to serve as a secure pipe between devices, in some cases allowing users to eliminate their need for separate VPN solutions.

Splashtop Streamer for Ubuntu Controls Your Linux Desktop, Streams Video, and More

Just like its Windows and Mac versions, Splashtop Streamer for Linux aims to be a faster way to connect to your desktop PC from a mobile device. Coupled with the Splashtop apps for iOS and Android, you can view or edit files, run Linux programs, stream music and videos, and more right from your iPhone, iPad, or Android device.

Splashtop For Linux Claims 10x Performance Advantage

While at first it seems boring yet another remote desktop application for Linux when there’s already VNC and friends, the features offered are fairly interesting. In the press release being issued today, Splashtop claims a 10x performance advantage over VNC.

Splashtop 2 client devices can connect to a remote computer running Ubuntu and the company attributes their “efficient protocol, algorithms, and optimizations” that allow it to deliver 10x the performance over VNC in latencies. Splashtop also claims 15x higher video frame-rates than the competition. I haven’t yet tried out this software on Linux myself so I cannot attest to these performance claims.

Splashtop Streamer for Ubuntu Linux (Beta) — Ubuntu Apps Directory

Installing to Splashtop to Arch:

For the machine to be accessed, server even, install splashtop-streamer.
For the client, install splashtop-client and for your phone, Splashtop 2 Remote Desktop.

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Faster GPU Cracking | TechSNAP 65

chris — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:45:55 +0000

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Everyone’s beloved password cracker has had a major update, and you won’t believe what it can do now!

The Aerospace industry has a new Advanced Persistent Threat, and a major Microsoft XML flaw already being exploited.

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New version of John the Ripper targets slow hashes with GPUs

The new version focuses on adding GPU support, both CUDA (for nVidia) and OpenCL (for AMD and other cards)
Other interesting new additions:
Non-hash cracking support for:
- Mac OS X keychains
- KeePass 1.x files
- ODF and MS Office 2007/2010 files
- Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/etc master password files
- RAR -p and -hp encryption modes
- WPA-PSK
- VNC Challenge/response auth
- SIP challenge/response auth
- HMAC-SHA1/224/256/384/512
New hashes supported:
sha256crypt (CPU or CUDA)
sha512crypt (CPU/CUDA/OpenCL)
DragonFly BSD SHA256/512
Drupal 7 custom PHP SHA–256 hashes
Raw-SHA1-LinkedIn
Interestingly, bcrypt (OpenBSDs implementation of blowfish as a password hashing algorithm), even on an AMD 7970, is slower on a GPU than a CPU due to the nature of the algorithm
Full Release Announcement

Unpatched Microsoft XML exploit added to Blackhole toolkit

An exploit for the unpatched vulnerability is now included in recent versions of the blackhole exploit kit, sold to cyber criminals and installed on infected and compromised websites across the internet
Numerous attack vectors have been used to exploit this flaw in the Microsoft XML engine, including MS Office documents, Flash, and Internet Explorer it self
The flaw is present in versions 3, 4 and 6 of MS XML Core Services, and exploitable on all supported versions of windows (XP/Vista/7, 2003/2008/R2 Server)
Microsoft published the advisory about the flaw on June 12th, after it was already actively being exploited in the wild
At this time, there is still not a fix for ‘Microsoft XML Core Services’, however Microsoft offers a ‘Fix-It’ that is supposed to mitigate the flaw, but suggests that this may cause application compatibility issues
The Microsoft EMET Toolkit may prevent the exploitation of this vulnerability, but as discussed previously, is incompatible with AMD Video Drivers
CVE–2012–1889
Official Microsoft Announcement

New version of trojan used in highly targetted attack

The Sykipot trojan is not new, however the latest version is being used more successfully than before
Phishing emails and targeted web advertisements are being used to drive users to sites where they are infected by drive-by-downloading of the trojan using the MS XML exploit
This requires zero user interaction in order to become infected
Previous versions of Sykipot have relied on file format exploits (MS Office files, PDFs)
The latest attack seems to be targeting attendees to the IEEE’s Aerospace Conference (the International Conference for Aerospace Experts, Academics, Military Personnel, and Industry Leaders)
Researchers have found a Sykipot variant that was programmed to steal credentials from systems using ‘ActivIdentity’s ActivClient’, the smart card application used by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Common Access Card (CAC)
This could result in the compromise of such smart cards, allowing the attack to gain access to highly sensitive materials

A third of top UK Univerisities use weak SSL configurations

TechWeek Europe used the SSL Labs tool to test the SSL implementations used at the top Univertisities in the UK
Many of the schools received grades of C or D instead of the expected A
Such weakness in the implementation of SSL could allow an attacker to inject data into encrypted packets, in order to exploit the user’s machine while they are visiting a trusted site, or to hijack the session or compromise other private data
Many of the schools responded quickly with configuration changes to upgrade their scores, while others were hesitant to make configuration changes for fear of affecting accessibility for users
SSL Best Practices Guide
ScaleEngine.com ‘s Results

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Simple File Sharing | LAS | s18e09

chris — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 13:53:37 +0000

HTC is exposing private information about Android users, and we bust out our ACTION RAGE! Plus Gnome 3.2 is out, find out whats new, and Microsoft kicks things up to a full assault against Android, we share the details!

Then – Find out how easy it can be share files under Linux, even if you want to do it like a pro! Plus our picks for quick and simple file sharing, and a whole lot more!

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Debian is winning the Upstream War

Debian has ~108 (~42 of Ubuntu) to Redhat’s ~46 forks
Redhat’s RPM package system, while a popular standard, suffers from a number of issues
Redhat uses the YellowDog update manager, which solves some of the
Debian’s APT handles dependencies much better
Both suffer from a plethora of different ‘repositories’ as compared to FreeBSD’s single repository for all versions and architectures.

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Remote Linux Administration | LAS | s14e06

chris — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:24:15 +0000

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