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  " TigerVNC is a high-performance, platform-neutral implementation of VNC (Virtual Network Computing), a client/server application that allows users to launch and interact with graphical applications on remote machines. TigerVNC provides the levels of performance necessary to run 3D and video applications, and it attempts to maintain a common look and feel and re-use components, where possible, across the various platforms that it supports. TigerVNC also provides extensions for advanced authentication methods and TLS encryption." Begin by installing both the server and the viewer. # urpmi tigervnc tigervnc-server Then read the document at /usr/share/doc/tigervnc/HOWTO.md for specifics on the Mageia installation. That's important because things have changed and the TigerVNC installation recipies foud on the web have not caught up. The text is shown below: # What has changed The previous Tigervnc versions had a wrapper script called `vncserver` which  could be run as a us...

   There have been several Linux distro releases in the past that claim to offer a MS Windows-like experience to woo new users to Linux, such as Corel Linux ,  Xandros Desktop , and Linspire/Lindows . These failed mostly because the commercial companies attempted to modify Linux enough to lock the users into their own walled garden. Interestingly, all these distros were based on Debian. A successful Debian-based distro is Canonical's Ubuntu . It doesn't attempt to strong-arm users into its walled garden, but does offer a few special things and a rich user and support environment. It's popularity is well-earned and spurred by its marketing. Zorin OS 18 is the latest entry into the fray and is a Ubuntu-based distribution , many calls it a "fork" since the UI is customized to mimic MS Windows. They do offer a free download ISO , so I attempted to install that in a VirtualBox VM. It hung up on my first attempt; problems with some LibreOffice packages, so I opted to N...

  I've been curious, so I thought I'd install Arch Linux in a VirtualBox virtual machine and see  what was up. I followed the well-written HOWTO by  Ankush Das , but was not very successful, not for his instructions, but from some glitch in the installer. It seems that none of the extra apps would download to install, so what I got was the minimal, non-GUI default installation. I was able to  manually install enough things to display the LXDE desktop (my favorite). CONCLUSION Maybe there's a problem with the USA repositories? This may be what's happening. I might try again selecting some other country. I found the text-based install very reminiscent of the RedHat 5.1 install that was my introduction to Linux back in the day. I'll wait until the repo bug is fixed before I try it again. RESOURCES Arch Linux homepage The EXCELLENT Arch Linux Wiki

  Rayhunter is a project for detecting IMSI catchers, also known as cell-site simulators or stingrays . Why the Electronic Frontier Foundation   established the project  is explained at the site.  Is this useful for the average person? Not really, but it was fun for me. The device used initially is the Orbic Speed (RC400L), a small Internet hotspot. I found one on eBay for just $15 including shipping. Other devices have been added to the supported device list .  Installation is pretty straightforward. Download the installer that matches your computer, connect the device to your computer with a USB cable and launch the installer per the instructions. A successful installation will show a green bar across the top of the screen and the presence of "stingrays" when you drive around will display yellow dots, orange dashes, or a solid red line . The device will log the data which you may share with the EFF. How do you manage the device? There is a web UI at...

 This program is part of the net-tools RPM package. # netstat -lntup -l = only services which are listening on some port -n = show port number, don't try to resolve the service name -t = tcp ports -u = udp ports -p = name of the program Since net-tools is deprecated, you can use the ss command instead of netstat if netstat is not present on your machine: # ss -lntup This should work similarly and is already installed on Mageia. RESOURCES https://superuser.com/questions/529830/get-a-list-of-open-ports-in-linux

DNSCrypt is a network protocol that authenticates and encrypts Domain Name System ( DNS ) traffic between the user's computer and recursive name servers, with support for modern encrypted DNS protocols such as DNSCrypt v2 , DNS-over-HTTPS , Anonymized DNSCrypt and ODoH (Oblivious DoH) . (SOURCE: https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy ) Prebuilt and up-to-date binaries are available for Linux, Mac, Windows and other operating systems. Download the Linux x86_64 version here . Follow installation instructions here . Alternatively -- and the best choice for Mageiam, IMHO -- you can download the x86_64 version of dnscrypt-proxy from OpenMandriva here . The OpenMandriva-sourced package will install, but show an error that can be safely ignored. This package is superior to that provided with Mageia and is the most current version of the application, but you will need to block the update of the package to the Mageia version by adding its name to /etc/urpmi/skip.list . Follow the ex...