Software Freedom Doesn't Kill People, Your Security Through Obscurity Kills People

So, I know that Raspberry Pi and the like exist. They're great, but aren't what I'm looking for. I was hoping to have a small ARM desktop that has the following things:

Can run Fedora images and kernels with minimal fuss
Gigabit ethernet on better than USB2
Sata ports
Can drive 2560x1440 display
Fast enough to run Firefox and similar software

I don't really need it to be tiny and I don't care too much about power usage. I just can't really keep up with the state of the art when it comes to ARM boards.

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Release management in Open Source projects (IEEE Software Blog)

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 10:00 AM PDT

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All ideas

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 03:56 PM PDT

Well, anything they actually do for their UI design will be better to have another 6 years of the same awful looking.

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PGP Short-ID Collision Attacks Continued, Now Targeted Linus Torvalds

Posted: 14 Aug 2016 04:50 PM PDT

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Why is linux in particular good for learning programming?

Posted: 14 Aug 2016 07:22 PM PDT

I heard from some other people in my college that its good to have a version of linux while learning programming. why is that and which one should I go with?

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What would it mean for Linux if google ditched it for they OS?

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 07:49 AM PDT

With the recent news on Fuchsia and they not using the Linux kernel for it, I was wondering. Was Google using the Linux kernel for Android beneficial for Linux? What would it mean for Linux if Google ditched it now?

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Wi-Fi: ON, Bluetooth: OFF. Why do they make it so confusing?

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 03:35 PM PDT

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Async hash table server in C

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 03:51 AM PDT

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How to setup owncloud on centos 7.

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 01:19 PM PDT

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My Linux Wireless Nightmare - A Memoir

Posted: 14 Aug 2016 06:30 PM PDT

So recently I made the mistake of deciding to upgrade the wifi card on my main Linux machine. I had been using a Rosewill RNX-150PCe pci-express card that worked like a champ. It had an Atheros chipset and was detected by every distro I ever installed out of the box. My only gripe with it was I didn't get amazing reception due to the fact that the small antenna ended up getting wrapped up in the rat's nest of wires behind my PC.

My first failure in WiFi was deciding to upgrade to the TP-Link TL-wn822n usb wifi adapter. I thought to myself, "It can run at N300 speeds and will not get caught in the wires behind my PC unlike my old PCI-e card." I had also read that it had an Atheros chipset so I figured I was good to go in the Linux department.

Cut to two days later when it arrived from Amazon. I plug the adapter in, check out the output from lsusb and see that it has a Realtek chipset. "Well, that not ideal. TP-Link must have changed the chipset with the newest revision." I do a little research and see that the adapter will work with Linux but I will have to recompile the rt8192cu-fixes module each and every time I install a new distro. Also, the adapter won't work during Debian netinstall so I will have to lug my desktop down to the basement and directly connect it to my router. I'm not much of a distro jumper but I would like to have my wifi detected out of the box in case I want to try doing a netinstall of a new distro without having to carry my PC down to the basement.

From here, I decide to order a TP-Link TL-WN722N wireless adapter. From my research, this seems like THE usb wifi adapter to have under Linux. It is the preferred adapter for Kali Linux, it has an Atheros chipset, it only cost like $11. Cut to two days later when I plug it in and see that it has the SAME GODDAMN Realtek chipset as the wn822n. You guessed it, they changed over to a Relatek chipset for the newest revision of the adapter. Once again the situation is not ideal and my nightmare continues.

From here I decide to play it super safe. I order a D-Link DWA-552 PCI card from Ebay. This PCI card is from like 2007 and I can't imagine that D-Link decided to come out with a new revision of the card with a Realtek chipset. Install it in my machine, it is detected out of the box but GOOD LORD IS THIS CARD SLOW. It has three goddamn antennas jutting out of it but apparently none of them do a freaking thing because I'm only getting about 60 KBps download speed. I'm so frustrated at this point that I don't even bother to research the issue. I just rip the PCI card out of my PC and go on to the next possible solution.

From here I order a Rosewill rnx-n150hg USB adapter from Ebay. This is basically the same adapter that I was originally using but it uses usb instead of PCI-e. In a way, I'm kinda back to where I started but in a slightly better position due to the fact that it is a usb device.

Now this is where the story takes a different turn. the new Rosewill usb adapter adapter still hasn't arrived but I started getting impatient and began researching how to get a really old Cisco AM10 usb wifi adapter I had kicking around working. This thing was from like 2010 (cost $10 then) and NEVER worked under Linux until about last year. This thing doesn't even have drivers for Windows 8! I just assumed that this thing was a piece of trash but didn't have the heart to throw it away.

Long story short, using a utility called usb_modeswitch, it is possible to switch the device from usb storage mode (it initially shows up as a storage device containing the Windows drivers to the operating system) to wifi device mode. From here, you can use the Linux ralink drivers and the thing is an absolute joy to use. Best wifi device I have ever used with Linux. It gets 4 out of 5 bars reception on the second floor even though the router is down in my basement. Details are listed at the link below:

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2276499

Anyway, thank you for reading my inane, beer-fueled ramblings. Hopefully I helped at least one person who happened to be in the market for a decent usb wifi adapter for Linux.

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Review of Zenwalk Linux 8.0

Posted: 14 Aug 2016 05:08 PM PDT

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Alternatives to Metasploit?

Posted: 14 Aug 2016 05:37 PM PDT

Are there any other well rounded penetration testing tools that work on linux and preferably from the command line?

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Software Freedom Doesn't Kill People, Your Security Through Obscurity Kills People

Software Freedom Doesn't Kill People, Your Security Through Obscurity Kills People

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