Wael Nasreddine

Have you ever dreamed a Sabayon that fits on your small hard drive, a Sabayon that is smart, lightweight and ready to be filled in with the applications YOU want? On a 700MB CD also? Here it is my friend! It’s called “Pod” and it’s just like a Mini Edition, but with XFCE 4.4.2 in it and based on Sabayon Linux 3.5.

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Security is the most important thing in our lives, to this end, a lot of tools and algorithms has been created, tools allowing you to encrypt your data. In this article I will provide details on the 2 most commonly used tools/algorithm for data protection, GnuPG and LUKS.

In this article, I will teach you how to use both tools in a different situations, exploring many useful situations… Once you’re done, you will be able to protect and keep your data safe and secured…
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It’s very important, when you are choosing an important password, to choose it well, always mix letters ( lower AND upper ), numbers and characters… A week password can be guessed via dictionary attack, like `home` or `computer` etc… A strong password can never be guessed via dictionary attack, ex: `]RmXpEB=1&` or `rl*~V3nM"S` …

I agree that random passwords are very hard to remember, but it’s better safe than sorry right ? Anyway you might think I thought of that password, well guess again

To generate a random, yet powerful, password I use apg it’s a small program that generates passwords, you can request both pronounceable and random passwords.. here some examples:
Generate an 8 to 10 chars long, pronounceable passwords
$ apg -a 0 -m 8 -x 10
Dabfiecaf
cebfaysHey
hivjebDoj
Kaneisht2
FiwauHyk
NiwryinkEp


Generate 15, 5 to 10 chars long, random passwords
$ apg -a 1 -m 5 -x 10 -n 15
y=/y}Ue
U^hV;DX
Y|'q@PWU}
Iz?J[M\{:
z0)g(3?bR[
W3'(PQ}8.
/]eb:]VkU
num)bQ
|q&Z6:)d5
I()jhl?I
0′[Pc1″<4
e1,`L”
WAU\ %o+n1+ 9pIs'


Password Strength
To check the strengh of your password, you can use Password checker by Microsoft.com or this small Java program

Good Luck

We are proud to announce the release of Sabayon 3.5 Final

codename: Ibex Poacher

Distribution Features, Updates, Changes since 3.4

Entropy 0.15.23.7: defining the “software2.0″ concept (read our current/future development plan and status, sponsored by the NLnet Foundation)
- This is the Cool, Exclusive, Fast, User-oriented, Sabayon Linux Package Manager, Portage compatible, written from scratch
- Featuring “equo” as Textual front-end
- Featuring “Spritz” as Graphical front-end (based on YumEx)
- Featuring a notification applet front-end to keep your system up-to-date (based on RHN-Applet)
- Featuring an Online Packages Browser at packages.sabayonlinux.org
- Featuring “Community Repositories” support, every user will be able to create his/her own repository in less than 15 minutes
- Featuring Gentoo Linux Security Advisories support, enabling you to easily and quickly get informed about security threats and their fixes/package updates
- Completely internationalized into your language (5 languages currently supported), help us!
- Around 7500 applications available for both 32 and 64bit Computers
- Multiple branches support, wanna stick with 3.5 during the 4.0 development? No problem!
- Currently at about 40000 lines of code, and growing
- No more headaches to keep your System updated, We do it for You! Two clicks or a few keystrokes, this is what you just need.
- Completely based on Open Source technologies (Python, SQLite, MySQL, OpenSSL, Urwid, gzip), source code available at svn.sabayonlinux.org
- One of the first Gentoo-based Linux distribution actively supporting source and binary packages.

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Most people I know, whom aren’t very used to linux yet, are afraid of the command line, they think it’s hard to learn and somehow useless but that is entirely false… The command line is very easy to learn, well at least the basics of it, but you should know that the shell is much more powerful than anything you have, or will, ever use…
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Sabayon linux, Gnome 2.22 and Compiz 0.7.6

I always love Linux, I actually never use windows, but I still have to choose a distribution, I always loved Gentoo because it’s very easy to use, besides it’s a source based… And I truly love the USE flags, You can build the packages the way you like
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Here’s my desktop, running Ubuntu 8.04, Gnome 2.22.2 and compiz-fusion…

Wallpaper: 1280×800

Lately I have been getting sick and tired of graphical IM, I like aMSN for MSN clients but wait I have 3 MSN accounts, that’s 3 wish’s processes and believe me, that’s too much !! I tried using Pidgin, but I didn’t like it compared to aMSN, If I want to use a graphical messenger I’d like it to be fully featured… I have decided to go to a much more appealing solution, a textual one, but hey I already use mutt for my mail, and ViM for everything I write, So I don’t mind a textual messenger…
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Hello,

Do you like the famous wget? but you would like to have a more advanced program? Open your arms and welcome the aria2 software, I have been using it for more than a year now and I thought it deserve an article on my blog, specially the integration with firefox 3, we’ll discuss it later in this article…
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