HOWTO Build a Linux kernel module out-of-tree 

This article is incomplete and was first written in June 2006
for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/340).
It could happen that you badly need to use a newer kernel module than what is present on your existing Linux kernel (2.6.x), but you do not want to upgrade the whole kernel or rebuild it from scratch, because:
  • you cannot or don't want to reboot afterwards
  • you don't have the original source anymore (and your kernel was patched) or you don't want to download and install them, but you do have the kernel headers handy
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Linux CIFS Client 

This article was first written in February 2006 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/328).
Extract from the Linux CIFS Client homepage: The CIFS VFS is a virtual file system for Linux to allow access to servers and storage appliances compliant with the SNIA CIFS Specification version 1.0 or later. Popular servers such as Samba, Windows 2000, Windows XP and many others support CIFS by default.

Networked printing infrastructure using CUPS on Debian 

This article was first written in August 2005 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/286).
In a networked infrastructure, with many workstations needing to print (or generate PDF or PS files, or send faxes), CUPS may help a lot, especially with its automatic network-browsing features. Let's see how to set that up.

CUPS Server

First, you probably want to setup a server to share printers.
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