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Perfect Installation of Debian Etch (Debian 4.0)

Howtoforge.com has a detailed how-to for installation of newly released Debian Etch(4.0). I have to list down some of programs the author uses to perform daily desktop tasks.

Graphics:

• The GIMP - free software replacement for Adobe Photoshop
• F-Spot - full-featured personal photo management application for the GNOME desktop
• Google Picasa - application for organizing and editing digital photos

Tags: 4.0, Debian, etch, how-to, installation, perfect

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Using Azureus with TOR

Azureus is a Java BitTorrent client, that’s platform independent, as long as you have Java Runtime Environment installed. Be sure that you have JRE installed for this program to work. You can refer to this post of mine, to get JRE installed on your Debian box.

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Second Life linux client alpha on Debian.

I’m not a gamer. Since I’m so addicted to Linux, gaming is something I have to give up. However, wonderful pc game developers will come out with something amazing from time to time, aiming the entire pc game market. They have wonderful port versions for popular operating systems which Linux is also included. This is my second online game, after Neverwinter Nights.

The game’s name is Second Life, and yes, its linux client is the most hassle-free version I’ve ever dealt with. Simply download the package, extract and run the game. There’s no compile-and-install steps at all! If you are running on alsa sound system, your have a video card better than geforce2, then you’ll have no problem running this game. Make sure you’ve installed the nvidia driver like I did, and if you are on ATI cards, fglrx is needed for 3d performance.

Second Life login screen.

Second Life is best played in window mode, it has a lot of interactions with outside the game world(opening web pages, voice commucation with skype etc).

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Picotux, smallest Linux computer in the world.

Check out this little baby I’ve found online, the smallest Linux computer in the world. Its size is 35mm×19mm×19mm, only a bit larger than a RJ45 connector! It has one serial port, and one RJ45 connector. It’s using uClinux as its operating system.

this image is taken from picotux.com

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Debian and HP PSC 1400 All-In-One Series How-To.

I’ve just got a HP PSC 1400 All-In-One Series from a friend. This device is so called “All-In-One”, but can only photo-copy, print and scan. It took me sometime to make it work in my KDE desktop. So here I am again, to share some tips with you guys.

PREPARING
First, get its power on, connect it to your machine’s USB hub. Try to verify that your machine is able to detect it by various approaches.

1. lsusb, this command should print a block of output depending on your USB usage.
   

   Bus 002 Device 006: ID 03f0:4d11 Hewlett-Packard

   This is the line, the device is detected.

2. dmesg, this command will print a load of output. Look at the bottom part. You will find something similar to this.
   

   usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 6 usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
   drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 6 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0×03F0 pid 0×4D11

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