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Debian Stable or Etch I think, this has all the stable tested packages and is a bit out of date.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

4. make-kpkg clean

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