Difference between Debian and Ubuntu

Posted on June 13, 2008
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Difference between Debian and Ubuntu:

 I would suggest u try Sidux which is based on Debian Sid that is Debian unstable.

There r 3 versions

Debian Stable or Etch I think, this has all the stable tested packages and is a bit out of date.

Debian Lenny or testing contains newer packages still in testing.

Debian Sid or unstable is bleeding edge.

What Sidux does is takes Debian Sid’s repos and check their updates and makes a stable distro out of unstable.

For compiz fusion u will have to join SIdux’s or Debians forums.


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Fake start-stop-daemon called, doing nothing

Posted on May 16, 2008
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If you get ”Fake start-stop-daemon called, doing nothing” messages both during boot and shutdown on debian,you can repair it easily,as follows:

$ cp /sbin/start-stop-daemon /sbin/start-stop-daemon.FAKE
$ cp /sbin/start-stop-daemon.REAL /sbin/start-stop-daemon


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Rebuild kernel in Debian

Posted on May 16, 2008
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1. Install the necessary software before compiling the kernel:

apt-get install kernel-package libncurses5-dev fakeroot module-init-tools

2. Download the latest kernel,uncompress it to  /usr/src:

tar -jxvf linux-2.6.25.tar.bz2 -C /usr/src
cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.25
cd /usr/src/
cp /boot/config-2.6.22-3-686 ./

3. make menuconfig

Choose the profile(/usr/src/linux-2.6.25/config-2.6.22-3-686) to the dialog box.

Save and exit. The default configuration will be saved in /usr/src/linux/.config.

4. make-kpkg clean

Compile the new kernel and package the source file into deb file:
fakeroot make-kpkg -revision=mykernel.1.0 kernel_image –initrd

After compiled ,system will generate a deb package in /usr/src directory:
2.6.25_mykernel.1.0_i386.deb
5.  Install this deb package:
dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.10_mykernel.1.0_i386.deb

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