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How-to build latest Linux kernel from Linus’ git repo on Debian

Here’s a how-to for building a recent Linux kernel on your Debian GNU/Linux box: You will need to do all this as root. It’s serious business building new Linux kernels su – The dash after the su command makes it behave as if you had logged in as root directly, a full login environment is [...]

Posted 24 October 2012 § Debian § git § Howto § Kernel § Linux ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Debian rc.local howto

If you’re using a flavor of *nix that has an rc.local file, and then you start using Debian GNU/Linux, you might be wondering where your rc.local file is. Quite simply, it’s not there. Here’s how to add it. Create a new file named /etc/init.d/local like this: #!/bin/sh # put startup stuff here Make the file [...]

Posted 05 December 2006 § Linux ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Debian Games

Here’s some command line magic to install lots of games on your Debian box: yes | \ for x in `apt-cache search game \ | sort \ | awk ‘BEGIN { FS = ” – ” } { print $1 }’`; do \ apt-get install $x; \ done

Posted 14 February 2006 § Linux ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,