Published at: 03:08 pm - Tuesday August 23 2011
A friend asked me by twitter for a software for automatic security updates in Debian. Honestly I don’t trust in automatic stuff, but this software appears interesting. I searched in the cache: apt-cache search automatic update and I found cron-apt. How to use (at least in Debian) I.- Yes Mr. Obviously, install it. # apt-get [...]
Published at: 01:07 pm - Monday July 25 2011
Last week and how it had been announced, Linus Torvalds released the new version of the Linux Kernel series 3.0 Because of this and the request of several geeks friends, I write this small handbook. Compile the Kernel Source, the Debian way. /me laughs while caresses her black cat, muahaha muahaha Almost all my nerds [...]
Published at: 04:06 am - Wednesday June 15 2011
This is not a Quilt’s tutorial, is a quick reference (to me :)). Honest I miss dpatch, now in Debian quilt is the “official” patch system then: you like it or you like it (that sound better in Spanish) :) Let’s play! quilt store the patches into: debian/patches (like as usual) and use a file [...]
Published at: 07:05 pm - Thursday May 26 2011
I already read many post about “Debian post-installation” most of them focused on packages for multimedia, games, video, eye candy, desktop etc. Personally after to install any desktop environment I install devel packages for obviously reasons, my “Debian post-installation recipe”: apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` apt-get install vim dpkg-dev git file gcc libc6-dev make patch perl [...]