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Feeding The Multitudes with Unbuntu Linux Christian Edition

by Ron Bieber on Sunday, January 25, 2009

Photo by rbieber

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.

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Creating a self signed SSL Certificate – A Brain Dead Script

December 6, 2005

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 [...]

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SCO describes alleged IBM Unix misuse to court

November 1, 2005

SCO describes alleged IBM Unix misuse to court – News.com

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Report: Open source years from mainstream

September 10, 2005

Report: Open source years from mainstream – Leading edge businesses are still in early stages of Linux deployments.

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SuSE Goes Community?

August 4, 2005

SuSE Goes Community – Novell following Red Hats lead and creating a community version of its professional operating system?

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Linus is My Home Boy

July 29, 2005

Jacob sent me a link to this Linus is my Home Boy shirt, thinking I would like it. I think I do!

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Slashdot: Disney, DreamWorks, Pixar Go Linux

July 27, 2005

Slashdot: Disney, DreamWorks, Pixar Go Linux

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From Slashdot : Unsealed SCO Email Reveals Linux Code is Clean

July 15, 2005

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.

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SCO updates Unix product, open-source attitude | CNET News.com

June 24, 2005

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.

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Mandriva Aquires Lycoris

June 17, 2005

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 [...]

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Red Hat Magazine – The Patent Promise

November 25, 2004

There’s an article in this months Red Hat Magazine (new this month) called “The Red Hat Patent Promise: Encouraging Innovation” that is a good follow up reading on companies using patent law to protect open source software.
Kind of a “Rah Rah” article for Red Hat, but it does show one thing they’re doing right.

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Mozilla FireFox 1.0

November 9, 2004

I downloaded Mozilla Firefox 1.0 today and browsed around with it a little this morning. Wow, what a difference! Speed wise it’s much better than the Mozilla browser. I was able to install the Flash Player Plugin without any human intervention whatsoever — on Linux! [...]

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Novell Ships Enterprise Desktop Product

November 8, 2004

According to Novell.com, Novell has released their enterprise desktop distribution, Novell Linux Desktop.
You can read the press release on their web site.
I started running SuSE Linux when Redhat stopped doing retail distributions in lieu of the Fedora Project and never looked back. I had run SuSE 8 [...]

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