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Due to the increasing trend of people using full disk encryption as a panacea for securing their systems, I have decided to write a paper on the vulnerabilities that still exist from using disk encryption alone. You may read the paper in PDF format here, or read it here after the break.

    There have been a lot of great ideas for support systems, whether they be simply an IRC channel or forum, or a bug tracking system like launchpad (or one of the other thousands out there). They all have their own pros and cons, and often times I've seen problems bounce back and forth between them because while each solution works, they aren't always what you want at that time, but they may be 10 minutes later for the same issue. So, after some idea bouncing today, I came up with an idea, a hybrid support system.

    I left openSUSE 3 years ago, and for good reason, it sucked. It was buggy, bloated, slow, and horribly unfriendly to use. So let's skip ahead 3 years to the present, openSUSE 11.0 is out and I'm ready to forgive past mistakes and give them another shot.

openSUSE 11.0 installer boot screen

    To be quite honest, as soon as I put in the DVD and saw the boot screen I knew something was different, it had the same old SUSE green but it had a fresh feel to it. This wasn't going to be the same SUSE that made my tear my hair out in frustration 3 years ago, so I quicly decided to come into this review with an open mind and a fresh pair of eyes.

    Recently I've become nostalgic for a old classic Mac OS shooter, Marathon. Then someone in an IRC room I frequent pointed out a little gem called AlephOne, an open source clone/fork of the original Marathon engine, 100% compatible with marathon data files.