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October 22, 2005

Quake4 Linux

Filed under: All, Linux, Comp-misc

Quake4FrontPage - Quake IV GNU/Linux FAQ Enough said.

I don’t play much games on a computer nowday’s, and when i do i play them on ps2. I do hoever ocasionaly play UT, and Enemy Territory.

I also respect developers who support Linux platform, and buy their games, even though I’ll probably play it for only about a week and then put it on a shelf.

Haven’t read any review’s jet, but knowing past ID games, It probably rocks.

Nessus going closed sourece, two GPL projects forked

Filed under: All, Linux, Security

It’s old news that nessus is going cloesd source for two reasons

  • Virtually nobody has ever contributed anything to improve the scanning _engine_ over the last 6 years. I’m not talking about shoe-horning DB support in nessusd, but really to contribute things which make the scans faster, or Nessus more powerful.
  • A number of companies are _using_ the source code against us, by selling or renting appliances, thus exploiting a loophole in the GPL. So in that regard, we have been fueling our own competition and we want to put an end to that.
  • The nessus will (or so they say) continue to bee free as in “free beer”. I have somewhat mixed feelings about that. I can understand why they dont want to support opensource nessus, but i am afraid that more and more additions will not be free. Not to mention that its harder to trust closed source security tool. So I guess I am not the only one thinking that since, there are two (active) projects, GNessus and Porz-Wahen that will pick up the existing GPL code and develop it further. I am not sure, wheather authors, intend to join forces or not, or even if they are aware of eachother. Aditional takes on this:

PS: There are some other projects, but it seems thees two are most pupular. (Segusius, gpl nessus plugins .)






















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