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Setting up an https server in Apache is easy. This tutorial covers how to create and sign your ssl certificate as well as how to configure the web server.
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January 2009, #177
It's a battle as old as time: good vs. evil. Fortunately, Linux and FOSS are on our side as we wage the battle against those who try to steal our secrets and invade our systems.
Checking your system's security is best done sooner rather than later. Test the locks with our article on security verification; find out how to use PAM to help secure your systems; use MinorFS and AppArmor to implement discretionary access control; learn more about Samba security in part III of our series; use Darknet to help detect bots and secure your systems; use the Yubikey to increase your site's security; and don't forget to lock the doors, because a cold boot attack could render your security useless if somebody has physical access to your computer.
But, we're not just about sowing the seeds of fear. We also show you how to use memcached in Rails, how to manage multiple servers efficiently, how to deploy applications easily with Capistrano, how to manage your videos with MythVideo, how to mix it up a bit (your audio that is), and even play a few games.
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On May 31st, 2008 Anonymous (not verified) says:
I don't understand the reason why we should advocate Linux to the common user.
We should be focusing on recruiting programmers, artists and translators. Once the workforce is strong enough to make free software beat all the years of software made for Windows the argument of a free (as in beer) and open platform should be enough to convert users anyway (if that is your goal). I think the goal should be to give users a choice, not to aim for world domination which is a less admirable goal.
As a parallel effort to that of making Linux better than Windows in a sense that makes users switch, we have two political battles to fight and two battles that can be fought as a concious consumer.
The political ones are software patents (in my personal opinion it should be patents in general) and the right to reverse engineer (which is still legal in Denmark where I live).
The two important battles as consumers are against DRM and hardware with proprietary drivers (or at least to buy hardware with official Linux support).
If all that succeeds we will prevail! We will prevail!