Category Archives: Red Hat

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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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 →

Posted in CentOS, Debian, Distributions, Fedora Core, Gentoo, Knoppix, Linux, Red Hat, Ubuntu | 9 Comments