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Bitflu – free opensource BitTorrent client in openSUSE

Posted by admin on 22nd June 2009

Bitflu is a free opensource BitTorrent client released under “The Artistic License”. Bitflu is written in Perl and is designed to run as a daemon on Linux, *BSD and maybe even OSX.

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SwiftWeasel – a faster optimized Firefox browser

Posted by admin on 11th May 2009

Swiftweasel is an optimized build of the Mozilla Firefox web browser for Linux. Seperate builds are available for both AMD and Intel processors. Swiftweasel is 100% compatible with all Firefox themes, plugins, and extensions.Release cycles are based on the release of Firefox versions by Mozilla.
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How to Disable ICMP Redirects in Suse/openSUSE Linux for security

Posted by admin on 21st February 2008


ICMP Redirects are used to update hosts of optimal alternate routes to a destination. These are updates normally sent by routing devices when the router becomes aware of an alternate route to reach a destination than the current one. This method is not very efficient and can cause security concerns.

However, this can be fixed at run time (dynamically) without having to reboot the PC or server running Suse Linux or OpenSuse operating system or at boot time (system startup).

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