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I found a reference to the Ubuntu Linux Christian Edition site from the Unix and Linux Menagerie blog and just had to download it and try it out.
This is my stupid attempt at humor. Christian geeks will get it, I hope. I actually downloaded it because I’m interested in the filtering that comes as part of the distro.
I have an SSL instance running in the house so that I can access my home Subversion installation remotely. The certificate I generated for this site expired a few months ago and I have procrastinated regenerating it because I seemed to remember it was complicated and I didn’t want to spend the time.
Well, it winds up its not that bad. I found a great summary of the commands necessary in order to do it, and threw together a very quick script to string them all together in order to create SSL certificates for a general host name and figured I’d throw it up here.
I generalized it thinking that I could have two certificates for the virtual hosts I have running on my home server. Unless I’m looking at old information, however, it doesn’t seem that you can have different SSL certificates for virtual hosts running on the same IP address under Apache 2. If you can, and someone knows how to configure Apache to do so, please let me know.
Here’s the script I used to generate the self signed SSL certificates for the house. Super simple. Now I just have to remember to source the script ;).
#!/bin/bash
# Cert4Host.sh - Generate SSL Certificates for a host name.
HOSTNAME="$1";
if [ -z "${HOSTNAME}" ]; then
echo "Usage : Cert4Host.sh HOSTNAME";
exit;
fi
if [ ! -e pass.key ]; then
openssl genrsa -des3 -out pass.key 1024
else
echo "Key already exists ... skipping ..."
fi
openssl rsa -in pass.key -out $HOSTNAME.key
openssl req -new -key $HOSTNAME.key -x509 -out $HOSTNAME.crt -days 999
sudo cp $HOSTNAME.key /usr/local/apache2/conf/ssl.key
sudo cp $HOSTNAME.crt /usr/local/apache2/conf/ssl.crt
Don’t forget to change your Apache SSL configuration to point to the new certificate and key (<hostname>.crt and <hostname>.key, respectively) and restart Apache.
Report: Open source years from mainstream – Leading edge businesses are still in early stages of Linux deployments.
SuSE Goes Community – Novell following Red Hats lead and creating a community version of its professional operating system?
Jacob sent me a link to this Linus is my Home Boy shirt, thinking I would like it. I think I do!
Slashdot points to this article on Groklaw, which makes public a recently unnsealed email which states that the Linux Kernel is free of SCO intellectual property.
From Slashdot:
SCO updates Unix product, open-source attitude | CNET News.com
For some reason I just have a problem with these guys filing lawsuits regarding Open Source software and then using it in their own product.
But that’s just me.
I received an announcement today on the Lycoris mailing list stating that Mandriva (formerly MandrakeSoft, creators of Mandrake Linux) have acquired Lycoris. Lycoris was started by Joseph Cheek in an effort to create a user friendly, Linux environment that was “easy for everyone”.
I actually bought the Lycoris system back when it was Redmond Linux – before the name change. I had taken cursory looks at it and thought they were on the right track. The main thing I didn’t like about it was the use of the KDE Desktop Environment. For some reason, I just find GNOME a much more comfortable environment to use.
For some reason, neither one of these distributions really caught on with me. I went from Debian to Redhat, with a brief stint of using Suse exclusively (version 9.0-9.2) before moving to Fedora, which I am very comfortable with and have been using since late last year.
That said though, it’s cool to see a guy start a company with good intentions and be bought without having gone bankrupt. I wish Lycoris luck under their new ownership. I’m definitely curious to see what new products come out of the merger.
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