A lot of people claim that Debian is hard to setup and I somewhat agree with them, Debian can be intimidating to those who are not familiar with linux. Falko Timme decided to make life easier for newcomers to Debian by writing an easy to follow instruction manual to guide newcomers through Debian Sarge installation.
This guide is available here.
– Suramya
This Tip was taken from a TechRepublic article by Vincent Danen. It will allow the user to map unused key combinations to run custom commands in the shell.
To obtain the key sequence from a function key, use the read command. The following is an example of pressing the [F12] key:
$ read
^[[24~
Note that different keyboards will produce different key sequences, and modifiers to the function keys (such as [Ctrl][F12] or [Shift][F12]) will produce other sequences as well.
The next step is to bind that key sequence to a particular shell command. For example, you can bind [F12] to the ‘history-search-backward’ shell command:
$ bind ‘’\e[24~’: history-search-backward’
– Suramya
The following command allows you to start a xterm and export its display to another system with a white foreground on a black background . Very useful when working on headless systems
/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -display
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A good collection of Debian Linux hints and Tips:
http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/DebianTips
– Suramya
Subversion is a really powerfull versioning system like CVS. Here’s a tutorial On subversion that tells you who to set it up : Subversion Tutorial
– Suramya
Compiling a linux kernel is not an easy job if you don’t know what you are doing and most of the articles and tutorials out there don’t really make sense to me. I found a Debian kernel compile how-to by Falko Timme which does a really good job of explaining what to do and how to do it.
Check it out over here.
– Suramya
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