Ceci n'est pas une pipe

There are no uncertain terms: my experience with VirtualBox Sun Microsystems was simply amazing! Now I can use the software that run better under Windows XP without having to reboot every time my Linux box. Essential, try to believe! Unnecessary loss in explanations on how to install because it is an embarrassingly simple: just install the package using dpkg. In this way, even those who - like me - use a kernel compiled ad hoc will be assisted in the compilation (fully automatic) the necessary forms to virtualization. Here are the steps:

1. visit http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads and click Binaries (all platforms)
2. accept the conditions of use and download the correct file (in my case: virtualbox_1.6.4-33808_Debian_etch_i386.deb)
3. install it with dpkg:
   #dpkg -i virtualbox_1.6.4-33808_Debian_etch_i386.deb

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Made this small - but necessary - premise, here are instructions for building the new kernel 2.6.25 for the current stable release of Debian GNU / Linux (code name: Etch).

First you must download the source of the new Linux kernel 2.6.25:

# apt-get -t etch-backports install linux-source-2.6.25

Then proceed as usual:

1. Change to the directory where I placed new sources and scompattiamoli:
   # cd /usr/src
# tar xjf linux-2.6.25.tar.bz2
# ln -s linux-2.6.25 linux
# cd /usr/src/linux
2. Reset (optional) all parameters of compiling and rivediamoli for greater security:
   # make clean && make mrproper
# cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config
# make menuconfig
3. Compile the sources and prepare packages. Deb:
   # make-kpkg clean
# fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-tetragono kernel_image kernel_headers
4. We install packages. Deb:
   # cd ..
# dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.25-tetragono_2.6.25-tetragono-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
# dpkg -i linux-headers-2.6.25-tetragono_2.6.25-tetragono-10.00.Custom_i386.deb

And here's the kernel installed and fully functional:

That's all, folks

Working daily with Debian Etch: the use extreme satisfaction with both on corporate servers that on personnel notebook (the same as I write at this moment). I am a staunch defender of the Stable branch of Debian - and any other operating system - partly because they do a professional and I can not afford the luxury of wasting time or - worse - to undermine the stability of a system to test the last trinket. On my notebook, however, I will often need to exploit a number of features that are absent or incomplete in the kernel 2.6.18, one in all the opportunity to use the NTFS-3G driver to manage the NTFS partitions. Read the rest »