Samsung Galaxy PRO GT-B7510

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 [...]

Automatic security updates.

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 [...]

Compiling the Linux Kernel

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 [...]

Kernel Linux 3.0: “Documentation/lguest not found”

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 “.” [...]

mental note: quilt without (much) pain

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 [...]