Category Archives: Fedora Core

Printing with Linux made easy

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Michael Hampton

Those of us who have been using UNIX based systems since the Dark Ages remember that printing was one of the most annoying, obnoxious, difficult to set up things about the whole thing. Those days are long gone. Today, printing with Linux is even easier than with Windows. Continue reading →

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Migrating from Apache to nginx

Posted on July 28, 2008 by Michael Hampton

Yesterday I changed out the web server software on this server, replacing the venerable Apache with a web server almost nobody’s ever heard of except for, ironically, Russian spammers. Continue reading →

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Encrypted root partitions in Fedora 9

Posted on February 25, 2008 by Michael Hampton

Well, after some two years, we’ve finally gotten encrypted root filesystem support into Fedora. (And it’s been far too long since I’ve updated this site; sorry.) The good news is you’ll be able to set up encryption during the installation … Continue reading →

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Encrypting your root partition on Fedora Core 5 and 6

Posted on September 21, 2006 by Michael Hampton

For a variety of reasons I use Fedora Core 6 as my primary operating system, both at home and on my laptop. And for security reasons, I need to have my filesystem encrypted, so that in the event that my … Continue reading →

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Encrypting your swap partition on Fedora Core

Posted on September 14, 2006 by Michael Hampton

For a variety of reasons I use Fedora Core 5 as my primary operating system, both at home and on my laptop. And for security reasons, I need to have my filesystem encrypted, so that in the event that my … Continue reading →

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Which Linux?

Posted on December 30, 2005 by Michael Hampton

If you’re considering making the switch to Linux, you almost certainly will have discovered that there are hundreds of Linux distributions, all of which are different from each other in subtle ways.

So how do you figure out which one to use? Continue reading →

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