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This article was first written in February 2005 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/203).

The convert carriage returns between UNIX- and DOS-kind of CR, use the tools dos2unix and unix2dos from the sysutils package. Usage is really simple:

$ dos2unix filename

or

$ unix2dos filename

where filename is the name of the file to convert. To convert a hierarchy of files starting from current directory:

$ find . -type f -exec dos2unix {} ;

For more information see the manpages.

This article was first written in January 2005 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/199).

On 2.4 kernels on Debian, there is a driver that enables better powersavings for AMD760MP and AMD-760MPX (usually found on multi-processors mainboards such as Tyan S2460, S2462 and S2469) chipsets: amd76x_pm.

This article was first written in January 2005 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/197).

The Debian GNU/Linux FAQ - Chapter 6 - Basics of the Debian package management system Tips on working with Packaging Commands on Debian Linux Debian package management, distributions and the /etc/apt/

This article was first written in January 2005 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/195).

Warning: This article is still work in progress. You have to keep in mind that speed is somewhat relative. It is often just a question of personal feeling, especially for a desktop machine. There are many ways to speed your Linux installation. Here, we will show how to do it on Debian Sarge+, but most tips should also improve performances on other distributions. We will focus on a desktop install.

This article was first written in December 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/194).

Introduction

All in all, the basic Debian Sarge install (using Netinst CD) does a lot of work and the laptop is usable as is (network, graphical display, sound, …). However, some things need a bit of tuning to get the best of your laptop. This article is intended to help those people who want to get the best out of it or, so to speak, to make everything work.

This article was first written in December 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/192).

To rename a Debian system, it is not enough to change the /etc/hostname file, you probably need to change some references to the old name elsewhere. This article tries to pinpoint the files where it would be needed to change it.

This article was first written in November 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/186).

Some people used devfs under Woody, or under their previous Sarge install. When going kernel 2.6, it may be useful to revert or upgrade to udev instead. The problem is that their nomenclatura is different, so your system may be rendered unbootable.

This article was first written in November 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/185).

Getty is known to be memory-hungry. Let's replace it with something lighter, which works in most cases: fgetty On Debian Sarge and up, it is already packaged, so sudo apt-get install fgetty will do the trick. But this is not sufficent for it to be installed instead of getty. You will have to edit /etc/inittab. Warning: this is a very dangerous file to edit, as it may render your system unbootable.

This article was first written in November 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/184).

Here are some links about interesting drafts of a Debian Packaging Web Applications Policy. https://alioth.debian.org/projects/webapps-common/ http://people.debian.org/~seanius/policy/ DB Apps Packaging Policy

This article was first written in October 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/179).

To use Bonding Ethernet for High-Availability (failover) on Debian (Sarge or Sid with a 2.6.x kernel [1]) you need to:

• install package ifenslave-2.6 [2]
• make sure the real NICs kernel modules are loaded automatically
• edit /etc/network/interfaces to look like this:

iface bond0 inet s