Linux Security Features The security features that UNIX-like systems such as Linux rely on are making these systems clearly superior to the rest of OSson the market. These features encompass root account security measurements‚ enhanced file accessing options‚ advanced data verification‚ storage encryptions and the list is not an exhaustive on. You can choose to watch now a surf shop be launched over the internet and expect for your Linux OS to better cope with the new website‚ rather than a Windows
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Topic: Comparing the security of Windows 7 to a Linux based operating system General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: At the end of my speech‚ my audience will be able to differentiate the two operating systems security. Central Idea: Comparing the security of Windows 7 to a Linux based operating system Introduction: Good evening‚ I am here tonight to explain the very basic securities of two very different operating systems. Windows 7 has been out for a couple years now and has what some
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The History of Linux began in 1991 with the commencement of a personal project by a Finnish student‚ Linus Torvalds‚ to create a new operating system kernel. Since then the resulting Linux kernel has been marked by constant growth throughout its history. Since the initial release of its source code in 1991‚ it has grown from a small number of C files under a license prohibiting commercial distribution to its state in 2009 of over 370 megabytes of source under the GNU General Public License. Events
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Compare Mac OS and Windows 1. Introduction a- Windows [pic] Microsoft Windows is the name of the software operating system monopoly of Microsoft Windows has many different versions as: Windows CE‚ Windows XP‚ Windows Server 2003‚ Windows Vista‚ Windows 7‚…. b- Mac [pic] Mac OS (short for Macintosh Operating System) is the operating system with the window and was developed by the company to Apple Computer Apple Macintosh computer. Mac has many different versions
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Memory Management Systems of BSD‚ Windows‚ and Linux Gaurang Khetan Graduate Student‚ Department of Computer Science‚ University of Southern California‚ Los Angeles‚ CA. gkhetan@usc.edu December 16‚ 2002 Abstract This paper is a study of memory management systems of an operating system. We begin with a brief introduction to memory management systems and then we compare the memory management systems of reallife operating systems - BSD4.4‚ Windows 2000 and Linux 2.4 1 Introduction based
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Networking Why use a Network? Quite simply explained we use networks for communication between computers‚ sharing of data and peripherals. In the business world we use networks for ease of administration and to cut costs. Sharing data example imagine an office with 5 secretaries working on 5 different computers‚ one requires a file from another computer in a non networked office this file would have to be written to a portable media then loaded onto the computer. In a networked office the file could
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Has built‐in interoperability with Windows clients Network File System (NFS) Generally faster than Samba when transferring large files Can be set up as a member server Easy to set up in Windows environment in Windows environment Has username/password authentication Authentication is Internet Protocol (IP)‐based; however‚ it can support Kerberos Can configure to squash root Can configure to squash root ssh Security Considerations for the Linux Desktop p • Turn off the X Display Manager Control
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Linux 101 Hacks www.thegeekstuff.com Table of Contents Introduction........................................................... 7 About the Author.................................................... 8 Copyright & Disclaimer............................................ 9 Version.............................................................................. 9 More eBooks from The Geek Stuff..........................10 Bash 101 Hacks.........................................................
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1 1.2 What Is Security? 1 1.3 OS Protection and Security 2 1.4 Assets and their Vulnerabilities 2 1.5 Protection 3 1.6 Intruders 3 1.7 Malicious Software 3 1.8 Trusted Systems 4 1.9 Protection and Security Design Principles 4 1.10 The Unix/Linux Security Model 5 1.10.1 Properties of the Unix Superuser 5 1.10.2 The Unix Security Model — Groups 6 1.10.3 Protection For Unix Files and Directories 6 1.10.4 The Meaning of Permissions 6 1.10.5 Changing File and Directory Permissions 7 1.11
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DRAFT as of November 19‚ 2010: Copyright 2009 Cox‚ Kaashoek‚ Morris Chapter 7 File system data structures The disk driver and buffer cache (Chapter 6) provide safe‚ synchronized access to disk blocks. Individual blocks are still a very low-level interface‚ too raw for most programs. Xv6‚ following Unix‚ provides a hierarchical file system that allows programs to treat storage as a tree of named files‚ each containing a variable length sequence of bytes. The file system is implemented in four layers:
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