module-assistant is a tool for building Debian kernel modules from source, without having to rebuild the whole kernel. It fetches module-source packages that have been prepared for the Debian distribution via apt and produces .deb packages. This tutorial shows how to use module-assistant in command-line mode and in interactive mode.
Read more »Building Kernel Modules With Module-Assistant On Debian Lenny
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How To Set Up A USB-Over-IP Server And Client With Debian Lenny
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This tutorial shows how to set up a USB-over-IP server with Debian Lenny as well as a USB-over-IP client (also running Debian Lenny). The USB/IP Project aims to develop a general USB device sharing system over IP network. To share USB devices between computers with their full functionality, USB/IP encapsulates "USB I/O messages" into TCP/IP payloads and transmits them between computers.
Read more »Security Support for Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 to be terminated on February 15th
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«One year after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias "lenny" and nearly three years after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias "etch" the security support for the old distribution (4.0 alias "etch") is coming to an end next month. The Debian project is proud to be able to support its old distribution for such a long time and even for one year after a new version has been released...»
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How To Set Up An SSL Vhost Under Apache2 On Ubuntu 9.10/Debian Lenny
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This article explains how you can set up an SSL vhost under Apache2 on Ubuntu 9.10 and Debian Lenny so that you can access the vhost over HTTPS (port 443). SSL is short for Secure Sockets Layer and is a cryptographic protocol that provides security for communications over networks by encrypting segments of network connections at the transport layer end-to-end.
Read more »New Apt-Fast Version, Now With Full Apt-Get Syntax Replacement [Ubuntu / Debian]
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Apt-Fast is a script which uses Axel, a command line application which accelerates HTTP/FTP downloads by using multiple sources for one file, and one can use it instead of "apt-get" on Debian based Linux distributions to get an amazing download speed improvement.
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Back Home, with Debian!
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By the end of 2004, I'd been running Debian ‘testing’ on my laptop since around early 2003, but after 6-8 months of woody, I was backporting far too much and I couldn't spare the time for upkeep. At just about that time, a thing called ‘warty’ was released.
Read more »How To List The Installed Packages on a Debian Based System
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In this tutorial I'm going to show how to list the installed packages on a Debian based operating system, (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Sidux, CrunchBang, etc.) I got this gem of a command line one-liner from the Sidux website.
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Keryx: Portable, Cross-Platform Offline Package Manager For Ubuntu / Debian
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Keryx is a portable, open source and cross-platform package manager for APT-based (Ubuntu, Debian) systems. It provides a graphical interface for gathering updates, packages, and dependencies for offline computers. It is similar to "Sushi, huh?", but easier to use and with a nice GUI.
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Debian Lenny: Letting a network-time server manage your clock
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The NTP service that uses network-time servers to keep your computer's clock from drifting is another thing that Ubuntu includes by default but must be added to Debian if you want to use it.
Read more »Why I'm running boring ol' Debian Lenny, the short version
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I do tend to go on. But here's the short version of why I'm running Debian instead of Ubuntu.
Read more »gNewSense Abandons Ubuntu, Microsoft’s Mono Agenda Revisited
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gNewSense is shifting to Debian codebase, shafting Mono, and the debate about Mono and Moonlight reaches new levels
Read more »Why I'm running boring ol' Debian Lenny, Part 1
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I bet many of us have been trying to pound square pegs into round holes at one time or another. It's the same for me with operating systems.
Read more »Debian/Ubuntu GNU/Linux device driver check
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This very useful tool to check Debian GNU/Linux device driver check page.Ubuntu is based on Debian GNU/Linux so let us try this and see the results
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Debian Squeeze freeze and Ubuntu Dev Syncing
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The Debian GNU/Linux project is looking at a development freeze in March. Earlier this year, the owner of Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth, had proposed that Debian sync releases with Ubuntu so that the work could be spread.
Read more »GlusterFS performance tuning for small files, replication, distributed, NUFA
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Small files performance is still the Achiles heel of GlusterFS. Tuning for replication (AFR, mirroring), distributed and NUFA setups is a non-trivial task, and you must know your application behaviour, your hardware and network infrastructure.
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