IBM Linux Technology Center Podcast

IBM Contributions to Novell SLES10 SP2 w Ingolf Salm

tgall — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:46:58 +0000

Ingolf talks about the technical highlights of IBM contributions to Novell’s SLES 10 SP2

Additional Information

http://www.novell.com/linux/

Episode 10 - Embedded PowerPC with Josh Boyer

tgall — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:18:53 +0000

Embedded 4xx PowerPC Linux Kernel maintainer Josh Boyer discusses activity in the embedded linux space.

Additional Information

Embedded Linux kernel mailing list at http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-embedded
Embedded and powerpc developers lists at http://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo
Embedded PowerPC info at http://penguinppc.org/embedded/

Episode 9 - WBEM Intro with Chris Buccella

tgall — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:46:02 +0000

Chris gives an intro to WBEM, sblim and other system management tools for Linux and other OSes.

Additional Information

SBLIM home page at http://sblim.wiki.sourceforge.net
Open Pegasus at http://openpegasus.org
WBEM from Python at http:://pywbem.sourceforge.net
WS-MAN information at http://openwsman.org

Episode 8 - eCryptFS with Mike Halcrow

tgall — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:22:39 +0000

The Enterprise Cryptographic File System is discussed with Mike Halcrow.

Additional Information

eCryptFS home page at http://ecryptfs.sourceforge.net/
LinuxJournal article at http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9400

Episode 7 - IBM Contributions to Red Hat Enterprise 5.2 with Emily Ratliff

tgall — Fri, 30 May 2008 04:37:33 +0000

IBM contributions to the recently released Red Hat Enterprise 5.2 are discussed with Emily Ratliff.

Additional Information

Redhat press release at http://www.press.redhat.com/2008/05/21/red-hat-enterprise-linux-52/
lwn.net article at http://lwn.net/Articles/283564/

Upcoming System Management Episodes

tgall — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:03:59 +0000

We’ll have a series of episodes over the summer about WBEM, the Java CIM client, sfcb/sfcc and CMPI providers. What questions would you like to pose on these topics? Please post them in the comments below.

Thanks much in advance for your participation!

Episode 6 - OpenSim with Sean Dague

tgall — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:39:07 +0000

OpenSim is an open source implementation of Linden Lab’s Second Life. Hear all about it with one of the developers, Sean Dague.

Additional Information

OpenSim project at http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page

Upcoming Embedded PowerPC Episode

tgall — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:38:32 +0000

Josh Boyer is the embedded PowerPC linux kernel maintainer. What questions would you like to pose to him? Please post them in the comments below.

Now obviously we won’t be able to answer all questions that might be posted. Thanks much in advance for your participation!

What would you most like to know?

tgall — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:53:35 +0000

Thanks to all of you that are listening to the show. We hope you are getting value out of what we have to offer.

One thing that we’re missing and I’m starting today is to give you the listener the opportunity to get involved. So for upcoming shows, I’ll make a posting here to let you know the subject matter of a future show and you the community can post your questions that you’d like to most know about the topic.

Look forward to hearing from you and posing your question to the expert!

Episode 5 - Linux Security, LSPP and MLS with George Wilson

tgall — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:58:44 +0000

George Wilson is interviewed about the Labeled Security Protection Profile and the Multi-Level Security projects on Linux.

Additional Information

General Security Textbook that Describes MLS - Ross Anderson, Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems, Wiley, January 22, 2001, http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html
Formal Multi-Level Security Definition - D. Elliott Bell and Leonard J. La Padula, Secure Computer Systems: Unified Exposition and MULTICS Interpretation, Technical Report MTR-2997 Rev. 1, MITRE, 1976, http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/history/bell76.pdf
NSA Rational for Mandatory Access Control - Loscocco, Peter, et al., “The Inevitability of Failure: The Flawed Assumption of Security in Modern Computing Environments”, Proceedings of the 21st National Information Systems Security Conference, October 1998, http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/papers/inevitability/
SE Linux Textbook - Mayer, Frank, et al., SELinux by Example, Prentice Hall, July 2007, http://www.tresys.com/selinux/selinux-book.html
Common Criteria Validated Product Lists
- Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, Zertifizierungsreporte,Website, http://www.bsi.bund.de/zertifiz/zert/report.htm
- National Information Assurance Partnership, Validated Products List, Website, http://www.niap-ccevs.org/cc-scheme/vpl/
Common Criteria Protection Profiles
- National Institute for Standards and Technology, Role Based Access Control Protection Profile, Version 1.0, July 1998, http://niap-ccevs.org/cc-scheme/pp/archived/pp_rbac_v1.0.pdf
- National Security Agency, Controlled Access Protection Profile, Version 1.d, October 1999, http://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/public/files/ppfiles/capp.pdf
- National Security Agency, Labeled Security Protection Profile, Version 1.b, October 1999, http://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/public/files/ppfiles/lspp.pdf
NSA Security Enhanced Linux Website - http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/
RHEL 5 LSPP FTP Site - ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/eal/EAL4_RHEL5/IBM/
RHEL 5 LSPP Evaluated Configuration Guide - IBM, LSPP EAL4 Evaluated Configuration Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM hardware, May 2007, Website, http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/dw/linux/RHEL-LSPP-EAL4-IBM-Configuration-Guide.pdf