Debian Tips & Tutorials

A few days back I have got a laptop from one of my friend. Since I don’t have another pc other than my desktop my plan was to use this laptop for doing experiments. So I decided to install Debian GNU/Linux Lenny to test LTSP5. But the optical drive of lap was not working. My [...]

In this tutorial we can see how to compile and build the binary package of Linux kernel. The advantage of creating binary package is that you can install the kernel on multiple machines instead of compiling kernel in each and every machine. The kernel used is 2.6.28. Prerequisites: apt-get install libncurses5-dev gcc make linux-headers-`uname -r` g++ [...]

Here is an how to for booting GnewSense from usb drive. GNewSense is a complete Free Operating System and is recommended by Free Software Foundation (FSF). It is derived from Ubuntu. The current version is 2.2 as of writing this post. Since the proprietary components are removed from the Kernel (Linux) and the OS it [...]