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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A258083. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: The existence of Trojan horses, viruses, and other malicious software has motivated the computer security industry to invent mechanisms that protectagainst malicious software. One such mechanism is called the Trusted Path. TheTrusted Path provides a way for the system to authenticate itself to the user.Once invoked, the Trusted Path provides an environment in which the user canperform trusted operations such as login, logout, and change password. Thisthesis provides a high level design for a Trusted Path and an in depth analysisof how a Trusted Path can be implemented in the Linux operating system. Research of process family creation and keyboard handling has led to the implementationof a Secure Attention Key that can be used to invoke a Trusted Path in Linux.This research is meant to be used in combination with other efforts to enhancethe Linux operating system as an inexpensive platform for instruction oncomputer security policies. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from UNIX Update, published by Worldwide Videotex on November 1, 2004. The length of the article is 904 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: TRUSTED COMPUTER BUILDING MLS LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM.
Publication: UNIX Update (Newsletter)
Date: November 1, 2004
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The World's Easiest Desktop Linux! Includes CD. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from LAN Product News, published by Worldwide Videotex on April 1, 2003. The length of the article is 486 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: LSI LOGIC UNVEILS LINUX-BASED ADSL ETHERNET REFERENCE DESIGN.(combination of HomeBASE chipset and the Linux operating system)
Publication: LAN Product News (Newsletter)
Date: April 1, 2003
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wayland is a lightweight display server for the Linux desktop, with the aim that "every frame is perfect, by which I mean that applications will be able to control the rendering enough that we'll never see tearing, lag, redrawing or flicker".Wayland was started by Kristian Høgsberg, a software engineer working for Red Hat, maker of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) an Operating System.Wayland uses existing technologies in the Linux kernel such as the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM), kernel mode-setting (KMS) and the Graphics Execution Manager (GEM) batchbuffer in order to provide a minimal display server. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from UNIX Update, published by Worldwide Videotex on August 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1154 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: XIMIAN "Y2PAY" PROGRAM OFFERS LINUX ALTERNATIVE.(Ximian Desktop Professional Edition for Linux operating system)
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Date: August 1, 2002
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Android is a mobile operating system running on the Linux kernel. It was initially developed by Android Inc., a firm later purchased by Google, and lately by the Open Handset Alliance. It allows developers to write managed code in the Java language, controlling the device via Google-developed Java libraries. The unveiling of the Android distribution on 5 November 2007 was announced with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of 50 hardware, software, and telecom companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices. Google released most of the Android code under the Apache License, a free software and open source license. ... Read more

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Yet another collection of wikipedia content
This book is irrelevant - it is an edited copy of some wikipedia pages.
Whilst wikipedia content is generally of high quality, the total of the pages does not make this a good book.
As such, this is a waste of paper - and it is already out-of-date.

Amazon! The Description is Crazy!
"High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!"

If there is any phrase that would turn off a Linux developer this would be it.You are telling me that there is no original content in this book and that is just a survey of Wikipedia articles.Now I hope this is not true but an email with this description for a book winging it's way into my inbox is just about all the mind can stand.

I am sorry but whoever wrote the description should be given a pat on the back for honesty and, simply should have stopped the Amazon email push to developers. ... Read more

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LiVES is a free software video editing program and VJ tool, released under the GNU General Public License. There are binary versions available for most popular Linux distributions. There are also ports for BSD, and it will run under Mac OS X/Darwin, Solaris and IRIX. ... Read more

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An exercise in unedited free speech but provoking nonetheles
This book reads like the mad rantings of a very PO-ed former Microsoft employee.My feelings about the company have only become more solidified since the time I read this book nearly 4 years ago - a nasty monopolist that gives new meaning to the word "compete."But don't be fooled by either the company or the dope who started crying wolf after he likely profited and now has no other Microsoft to latch onto.Read this book only if you appreciate the rights of both sides to air their story and then you can make up your mind.

Waste of paper
This guy is an embarrassmant to the publisher.His brainless rantings may be the result of rage fueled by something in his personal life perhaps?

I'm not a great fan of Microsofts business ethic, but the author is narrow minded, unable to reason or dicuss.Like most folk who rant over anything, the text isn't worth reading.I binned the book.

This book is a waste of time. Don't buy it.
The author should focus more on what makes Linux a good OS rather than his rantings about Microsoft. This book was a waste of time. I took it back for a refund.

Don't read it on a beach....
...especially not a windy one.This book literally starts *decomposing* the moment you first open it.After about 30 pages I ended up with a lap full of loose pages, some of them not even paginated.Took me a good hourto put the damn thing back together.The press itself looks like it wasdone on a cheap inkjet printer, and sometimes it is hard to tell"e" from "o", "g" from "j" etc...As for the content - this book reads like one of thoseUFO/government/name-your conspiracy pamphlets.There is a lot ofbiterness, resentment and outright rage aimed towards Microsoft, whichapparently wronged the author in some way.These uncontrolled emotionsdistort the whole idea the author is trying to present: that there areother alternatives to Microsoft products. The editing is nonexistent - someparagraphs and whole chapters feel like they were written in onerage-fueled take, with occasional trips to the basement to punch holes inthe walls with bare fists.

This person shouldn't be writing books.

don't bother with this book
i hate microsoft alot but this borders on ranting and raving. this guy should get a vallium prescription. the book is hard to follow and seems to have been written out of anger alone. dont waste your time and money, useit trying other opperating systems instead. oh and the binding is realybad, all the pages fell out that realy irritated me. ... Read more