RIP BlackBerry, Hello Android! Since I have memory I always was a BlackBerry fanboy, I know the platform (dare I say) better than anyone. However let’s face it, Android is the future. It’s because (and thanks to my old device is almost dead) I bought a new device: Samsung Galaxy PRO GT-B7510 and I have [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
While I’m trying to compile the Kernel Linux 3.0 gave me an error: [...] Documentation/lguest not found [...] This because lguest is not anymore into ./Documentation, now is in ./Documentation/virtual Obviously there are not documentation yet, however I solved this issue with a dirty hacks. Just find the string and change it: $ find “.” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I used SID since I started using Debian, but today I wanted to try testing, the logic tells you that the easiest way is to replace “unstable” to “testing” in your sources.list. However we can do better, look for the more fastest “mirrors” and even filter by country. #apt-get install apt-spy #apt-spy update #apt-spy -d [...]