The author of this article seems to think so. He appears to be primarily talking about Ubuntu here, but we strongly suspect that the same thing has happened with several other open source projects:
The Achilles Heel of Open Source: Elitism (Linux Advocates)
Related:
Mark Shuttleworth: Canonical leads Ubuntu, not ‘your whims’ (The Register)
Around 2 years ago I wrote an article about fail2ban.
Fail2ban is an intrusion prevention framework written in the Python programming language. It is able to run on POSIX systems that have an interface to a packet-control system or firewall installed locally (such as, iptables or TCP Wrapper).
Fail2ban’s main function is to block selected IP addresses that may belong to hosts that are trying to breach the system’s security. It determines the hosts to be blocked by monitoring log files (e.g. /var/log/pwdfail, /var/log/auth.log, etc.) and bans any host IP that makes too many login attempts or performs any other unwanted action within a time frame defined by the administrator.
Today I want to show you some configurations that you can use to improve the security of your Apache.
Read the rest here:
How to protect Apache with Fail2ban (Linuxaria)
In VLC’s preferences, note the setting for “Use GPU accelerated decoding” — on most systems with modern graphics hardware this should be checked, but is not by default. So, check the box and then click Save. You can always change it back if it makes things worse, or causes videos to not play at all.
This setting does not seem to be available in OS X versions of VLC.
There are probably at least two or three things on this list that you use almost every day, and some of you may use all of them:
10 Annoying Apps We’re All Stuck Using (and How to Make Them Better) (Lifehacker)
From the CentOS Wiki comes this list of suggestions for Securing OpenSSH. Most, if not all of them will work on other Linux distros as well.
We love simple solutions to problems, and this falls into that category.
A Reddit user has posted a pair of scripts to switch between two displays (a monitor and a TV) in Ubuntu 12.04, but these should be usable in many other versions of Linux as well. He writes:
I currently have a 40″ TV on HDMI (we’ll call this HDMI) and a 22″ monitor (DVI). I don’t want to dual screen these, I simply want one on at a time.
After a bit of difficulty at the start, this is what he came up with.
To switch the monitor off and the TV on:
#!/bin/bash
xrandr --output DVI --off
xrandr --output HDMI --auto
exit
To switch the TV off and the monitor on:
#!/bin/bash
xrandr --output HDMI --off
xrandr --output DVI --auto
exit
Be sure to make the scripts executable before running them.
See this thread on the PBX in a Flash forum. You may need to be logged in to download the script. It appears it may work with any recent Asterisk installation, not just with PBX in a Flash installations.
Monit is a free open source and very useful tool that automatically monitors and manages server process, files, directories, checksums, permissions, filesystems and services like Apache, Nginx, MySQL, FTP, SSH, Sendmail and so on in a UNIX/Linux based systems and provides an excellent and helpful monitoring functionality to system administrators.
The monit has user friendly web interface where you can directly view the system status and setup up processes using native HTTP(S) web server or via the command line interface. This means you must have web server like Apache or Nginx installed on your system to access and view monit web interface.
Continue reading: How to Install and Setup Monit (Linux Process and Services Monitoring) Program (TecMint)
Asterisk is an Open Source software PBX (Private Branch Exchange), developed by Mark Specer of Digium. It allows you to make calls to one another which may have connected to other PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). Asterisk runs on Linux, BSD, MacOSX and others. Having built-in features like voicemail, conferencing, IVR, queuing etc.
In this article, we are going to see a basic installation and working of Asterisk 11 in RHEL 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6.0, CentOS 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6.0, Fedora 18,17,16, Ubuntu 12.10/12.04/11.10, Linux Mint 14/13 and Debian Linux Operating Systems.
How to Install Asterisk 11 in RHEL/CentOS/Fedora and Ubuntu/Debian/Linux Mint (TecMint.com)
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