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Debian GNU/Linux is the computer operating system that I use when I get to choose. It's a version of the GNU/Linux operating system that's developed cooperatively by people around the globe. It's very stable, very high-quality, and you can decide for yourself whether you want older, more proven software, newer software, or bleeding-edge software. Freedom and control. Sweeeet.

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Setting up an Email Server

https://scaron.info/blog/debian-mail-postfix-dovecot.html

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Dark Theme

Use gnome-tweak-tool to set the overall dark theme
For Firefox I needed to use: https://eischmann.wordpress.com/2017/01/10/dark-title-bars-for-apps-with-dark-ui/

$ xprop -f _GTK_THEME_VARIANT 8u -set _GTK_THEME_VARIANT dark

...then click on the window you want to be dark

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/etc/init.d/console-setup (via the link /etc/rcS.d/S21console-setup) calls
/bin/setupcon which is a shell script that reads
/etc/default/keyboard - keyboard options. I like to add: XKBOPTIONS="terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,ctrl:swapcaps" to this file to make Emacs much easier to use in both X and the console.

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Setting up an Email Server

https://scaron.info/blog/debian-mail-postfix-dovecot.html

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Keyboard

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/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86.lst - list of keyboard rules
/etc/console-setup/remap.inc - The content of this file will be appended to the keyboard layout
$ setupcon -k - reload the console keyboard map

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/etc/init.d/console-setup (via the link /etc/rcS.d/S21console-setup) calls
/bin/setupcon which is a shell script that reads
/etc/default/keyboard - keyboard options. I like to add: XKBOPTIONS="terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,ctrl:swapcaps" to this file to make Emacs much easier to use in both X and the console.

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Keyboard

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/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86.lst - list of keyboard rules

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$ setupcon -k - reload the console keyboard map

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Browser

Debian tends to be conservative about the versions of software that they include in their stable distribution, but sometimes you want to be more cutting-edge. There's a repository of Iceweasel backports at http://mozilla.debian.net/ so you can install newer versions of the browser on older versions of Debian.

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Keyboard

/etc/default/keyboard - keyboard options
/etc/console-setup/remap.inc - keyboard remapping options
/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86.lst - list of keyboard rules

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woody netinst - http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/ - this is a small file that allows you to burn an installation CD that gets most of its files from the net. It's much quicker than downloading an ISO because you only get the files that you need.

woody minimal cdrom image - if you don't have access to the 'net during your installation then these images might do the trick: they're very small but can build a minimal system that includes some useful stuff. http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/debian-cd/

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installing Debian - install the smallest number of packages possible during the initial install process. I've found that it's better to get a minimal system up and running and then add packages to it later.

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You probably want to shut the PC speaker off - it's very annoying. Add blacklist pcspkr to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf.

http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs - installing codecs (including MP3) \ No newline at end of file

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Browser

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Debian GNU/Linux is the computer operating system that I use when I get to choose. It's a version of the GNU/Linux operating system that's developed cooperatively by people around the globe. It's very stable, very high-quality, and you can decide for yourself whether you want older, more proven software, or newer software, or bleeding-edge software. Freedom and control. Sweeeet.

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By Unix tradition the system hardware clock is set to UTC, but Windows expects it to be set to local time. You can edit this in /etc/default/rcS.
dpkg-reconfigure tzdata sets the time zone.

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You probably want to shut the PC speaker off - it's very annoying. Add blacklist pcspkr to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf.

http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs - installing codecs (including MP3)

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Debian GNU/Linux is the computer operating system that I use when I get to choose. It's a version of the GNU/Linux operating system that's developed cooperatively by people around the globe. It's very stable, very high-quality, and you can decide for yourself whether you want older, more proven software, or newer software, or bleeding-edge software. Freedom and control. Sweeeet.

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System Clock

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dpkg-reconfigure tzdata sets the time zone.

PC Speaker

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Debian GNU/Linux is the computer operating system that I use when I get to choose. It's a version of the GNU/Linux operating system that's developed cooperatively by people around the globe. It's very stable, very high-quality, and you can decide for yourself whether you want older, more proven software, or newer software, or bleeding-edge software. Freedom and control. Sweeeet.

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USB device permission

I had a problem where Debian would see that a camera was plugged in but I could only list the files on it (e.g. gphoto2 -L) as root. It turns out that there's a group called plugdev that controls access to the /dev/bus/usb files that are used to talk to the camera. \ No newline at end of file

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System Clock

By Unix tradition the system hardware clock is set to UTC, but Windows expects it to be set to local time. You can edit this in /etc/default/rcS.

PC Speaker

You probably want to shut it off - it's very annoying. Add blacklist pcspkr to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf.

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Debian GNU/Linux is the computer operating system that I use when I get to choose. It's a version of the GNU/Linux operating system that's developed cooperatively by people around the globe. It's very stable, very high-quality, and you can decide for yourself whether you want older, more proven software, or newer software, or bleeding-edge software. Freedom and control. Sweeeet.

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kernel

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USB device permission

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Debian GNU/Linux is the computer operating system that I use when I get to choose. It's a version of the GNU/Linux operating system that's developed cooperatively by people around the globe. It's very stable, very high-quality, and you can decide for yourself whether you want older, more proven software, or newer software, or bleeding-edge software. Freedom and control. Sweeeet.

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Set the spin down time for the hard drive using sdparm.
Use noatime on all mounted disks.

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Use ext2, not ext3. (maybe that is not necessary, I�ll try with ext3 some time)
Run syslogd with �-m 0� to get rid of the 20-minutes �--MARK--� entries. (For debian, set it in /etc/init.d/sysklogd)
Of course, only run stuff you actaully need

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Run syslogd with "-m 0" to get rid of the 20-minutes "--MARK--" entries. (For debian, set it in /etc/init.d/sysklogd)
Of course, only run stuff you actually need

And the final step, just figured out: Mount /var/run on a tmpfs. Daemons like openvpn seem to write there on regular intervals, so keep these away from the hard drive.

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Debian GNU/Linux is the computer operating system that I use when I get to choose. It's a version of the GNU/Linux operating system that's developed cooperatively by people around the globe. It's very stable, very high-quality, and you can decide for yourself whether you want older, more proven software, or newer software, or bleeding-edge software. Freedom and control. Sweeeet.

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Set the spin down time for the hard drive using sdparm.
Use noatime on all mounted disks.

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Use ext2, not ext3. (maybe that is not necessary, Ill try with ext3 some time)
Run syslogd with -m 0 to get rid of the 20-minutes --MARK-- entries. (For debian, set it in /etc/init.d/sysklogd)

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Use ext2, not ext3. (maybe that is not necessary, I�ll try with ext3 some time)
Run syslogd with �-m 0� to get rid of the 20-minutes �--MARK--� entries. (For debian, set it in /etc/init.d/sysklogd)

Of course, only run stuff you actaully need
And the final step, just figured out: Mount /var/run on a tmpfs. Daemons like openvpn seem to write there on regular intervals, so keep these away from the hard drive.

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kernel

http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/

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Debian GNU/Linux is the computer operating system that I use when I get to choose. It's a version of the GNU/Linux operating system that's developed cooperatively by people around the globe. It's very stable, very high-quality, and you can decide for yourself whether you want older, more proven software, or newer software, or bleeding-edge software. Freedom and control. Sweeeet.

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Make sure that you've got the devices that you need for your USB bus: http://www.linux-usb.org/FAQ.html . I needed uhci_hcd.

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reducing disk I/O

http://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/archives/130-Silencing-my-Slug.html

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Set the spin down time for the hard drive using sdparm.
Use noatime on all mounted disks.
Use ext2, not ext3. (maybe that is not necessary, Ill try with ext3 some time)
Run syslogd with -m 0 to get rid of the 20-minutes --MARK-- entries. (For debian, set it in /etc/init.d/sysklogd)
Of course, only run stuff you actaully need
And the final step, just figured out: Mount /var/run on a tmpfs. Daemons like openvpn seem to write there on regular intervals, so keep these away from the hard drive.

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Debian GNU/Linux is the computer operating system that I use when I get to choose. It's a version of the GNU/Linux operating system that's developed cooperatively by people around the globe. It's very stable, very high-quality, and you can decide for yourself whether you want older, more proven software, or newer software, or bleeding-edge software. Freedom and control. Sweeeet.

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GNOME 2.8 (in sid now) supports auto actions when devices (such as thumb drives and digital cameras) are plugged in. Here are my notes on getting it to work.

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One of the packages that gets pulled in is udev which is a daemon that manages the device files in /dev. udev doesn't auto-load modules the way devfs used to, so you probably want to load the modules that you need by listing them in /dev/modules. In my case I needed to load 8250 since I've got a serial mouse. On another machine I needed to load snd-mixer-oss and snd-seq-oss to get the OSS emulation device files.

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Debian GNU/Linux is the computer operating system that I use when I get to choose. It's a version of the GNU/Linux operating system that's developed cooperatively by people around the globe. It's very stable, very high-quality, and you can decide for yourself whether you want older, more proven software, or newer software, or bleeding-edge software. Freedom and control. Sweeeet.

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First make sure that you've got the right packages installed. I needed to install dbus-1, dbus-glib-1, hal-device-manager, and ifrename (and all of the other packages that apt-get pulled in).

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Make sure that you've got the devices that you need for your USB bus: http://www.linux-usb.org/FAQ.html . I needed uhci_hcd.

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Debian GNU/Linux is the computer operating system that I use when I get to choose. It's a version of the GNU/Linux operating system that's developed cooperatively by people around the globe. It's very stable, very high-quality, and you can decide for yourself whether you want older, more proven software, or newer software, or bleeding-edge software. Freedom and control. Sweeeet.

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Debian GNU/Linux is the computer operating system that I use when I get to choose. It's a version of the GNU/Linux operating system that's developed cooperatively by people around the globe. It's very stable, very high-quality, and you can decide for yourself whether you want older, more proven software, or newer software, or bleeding-edge software. Freedom and control. Sweeeet.

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fan speed control - http://www.lula.org/pipermail/lula/2004-January/002287.html

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automatically mounting devices

GNOME 2.8 (in sid now) supports auto actions when devices (such as thumb drives and digital cameras) are plugged in. Here are my notes on getting it to work.

First make sure that you've got the right packages installed. I needed to install dbus-1, dbus-glib-1, hal-device-manager, and ifrename (and all of the other packages that apt-get pulled in).

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Debian GNU/Linux is the computer operating system that I use when I get to choose. It's a version of the GNU/Linux operating system that's developed cooperatively by people around the globe. It's very stable, very high-quality, and you can decide for yourself whether you want older, more proven software, or newer software, or bleeding-edge software. Freedom and control. Sweeeet.

It's also somewhat more difficult to install than its commercial counterparts, so most people start with Red Hat or Mandrake first. You can get more info about the operating system (and the operating system itself!) at http://www.debian.org/.

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Bonjour, le monde! $

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fan speed control - http://www.lula.org/pipermail/lula/2004-January/002287.html

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	installing Debian - install the smallest number of packages possible during the initial install process. I've found that it's better to get a minimal system up and running and then add packages to it later.
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	After installation check: is all of the system memory recognized (i.e. `cat /proc/meminfo`)? If not you might need to use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel, or pass the amount of memory into `lilo`. if you've got more than one cpu, are they all recognized (i.e. `cat /proc/cpuinfo`)? If not then you might need to recompile the kernel with SMP support.

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	(other TechTips) Debian GNU/Linux is the computer operating system that I use when I get to choose. It's a version of the GNU/Linux operating system that's developed cooperatively by people around the globe. It's very stable, very high-quality, and you can decide for yourself whether you want older, more proven software, or newer software, or bleeding-edge software. Freedom and control. Sweeeet.
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	install ssh server and client ssh to another machine and then back again (just to test that you can)
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	installing/configuring i18n - Debian by default appears to install just the "C" locale, but you can do a little work to get many more languages. You need to install the `locales` package, then `dpkg-reconfigure locales` and pick the languages that you want. They'll be generated when you leave the program. The language codes are listed in `/etc/locale.gen` and there are aliases in `/etc/locale.alias`. To switch the locale set the `LANG` environment variable, e.g. $ LANG=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 hello

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Debian GNU/Linux is the computer operating system that I use when I get to choose.  It's a version of the GNU/Linux operating system that's developed cooperatively by people around the globe.  It's very stable, very high-quality, and you can decide for yourself whether you want older, more proven software, or newer software, or bleeding-edge software.  Freedom and control.  Sweeeet.
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woody netinst - http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/ - this guy picked up the ball and created a netinst cd for Debian woody.  One small bug: the installation program set up the /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the 'stable' distribution, which is (as I write this) potato, not woody.  You need to change it to 'woody' and apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade.
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 is all of the system memory recognized (i.e. cat /proc/meminfo)?  If not you might need to use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel, or pass the amount of memory into lilo.
  install ssh server and client
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	(other TechTips) Debian GNU/Linux is the computer operating system that I use when I get to choose. It's a version of the GNU/Linux operating system that's developed cooperatively by people around the globe. It's very stable, very high-quality, and you can decide for yourself whether you want older, more proven software, or newer software, or bleeding-edge software. Freedom and control. Sweeeet.
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	(other TechTips) Debian GNU/Linux is the computer operating system that I use when I get to choose. It's a version of the GNU/Linux operating system that's developed cooperatively by people around the globe. It's very stable, very high-quality, and you can decide for yourself whether you want older, more proven software, or newer software, or bleeding-edge software. Freedom and control. Sweeeet.
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	woody netinst - http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/ - this guy picked up the ball and created a netinst cd for Debian woody. One small bug: the installation program set up the `/etc/apt/sources.list` to point to the 'stable' distribution, which is (as I write this) potato, not woody. You need to change it to 'woody' and `apt-get update`, `apt-get dist-upgrade`.
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	installing Debian - install the smallest number of packages possible during the initial install process. I've found that it's better to get a minimal system fully up and running and then add packages to it later. After installation check:

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Debian GNU/Linux is the computer operating system that I use when I get to choose.  It's a version of the GNU/Linux operating system that's developed cooperatively by people around the globe.  It's very stable, very high-quality, and you can decide for yourself whether you want older, more proven software, or newer software, or bleeding-edge software.  Freedom and control.  Sweeeet.
 netinst-2.2r4.iso - this is a small file that allows you to burn an installation CD that gets most of its files from the net. I thought that this would be a cool thing to write - this guy beat me to it.  http://markybobdeb.sourceforge.net/elf/
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After installation check: 

 is all of the system memory recognized (i.e. cat /proc/meminfo)?  If not you might need to use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel, or pass the amount of memory into lilo.
  if you've got more than one cpu, are they all recognized (i.e. cat /proc/cpuinfo)?  If not then you might need to recompile the kernel with SMP support.
  are the disk drives using DMA (i.e. hdparm -d /dev/hda)?
 

Before you walk away from the console: 

 add one non-root account (Debian by default doesn't let root log in remotely)
  install ssh server and client
  ssh to another machine and then back again (just to test that you can)
 

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