Linux Distributions Timeline 1992 to present. I started with Slackware in the mid-90’s. Click for full-size (it’s huge). Image Credit: Andreas Lundqvist, Donjan Rodic, Mohammed A. Mustafa, Muhammad Herdiansyah, Fabio Loli https://github.com/FabioLolix/linuxtimeline

Checkec is an excellent tool written by Tobias Klein for identifying security features which were selected or omitted at compile-time on any given Linux binary. We rarely compile things for ourselves these days, but rather implicitly trust the person who packaged the software we use to have made good choices with security-relevant compiler options when […]