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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

That less good humor in people if they find in front during a working session, is not known. Like I can not say that it is certain to 100% of their authenticity. What is certain is that the collection of error messages UNIX and Linux collected by Mike Tremell is really fun. Here's my personal top twenty:

1. ERROR IN 1164 HOW THE HELL DID YOU GET HERE
2. "Keyboard not present, press any key"
3. Momentaraly writing while seeking ..
   Constantly writing while seeking ..
   Momentaraly writing while reading ..
4. Error: Error ocurred when attempting to print error message.
5. ERROR 0: NOT ON POWER
6. A funny symbol that I can not read has just been input. Continue, and I'll forget that it ever happened.
7. Maybe you should try asking a human?
8. Liar, Liar! Pants on Fire!
9. User Error: An unknown error has occurred in an unidentified program while executing an unimplemented function at an undefined address. Correct error and resubmit.
10. Good afternoon, gentelman, I'ma HAL 9000 Computer
11. Error: Success
12. Something Rotten in Denmark, interp Stack Not Aligned
13. YOU JUST TRIED TO FAKE-OUT MOTHER NATURE, AND SHE caught YOU! SUPER-VULCAN NOW HAS YOUR NAME ON HIS ENEMY LIST, AND YOU CAN BE CERTAIN THAT ATTEMPTS TO FUTURE RESOURCE LFN 0,3, OR 6 WILL RESULT IN YOUR BEING ABORTED, SPINDLED, MANGLED, folded, punched, DELETED, AND DEALLOCATED.
14. Only WIZZARDS know the real spells to open the gate of paradiZe
15. One of your faux pas seems to have wounded me deeply .. in fact, I'm barely conscious. Please fix it and try again.
16. ? Ouch, That Hurts!
17. You must be joking.
18. This label is the target of a goto from outside of the block containing this label AND this block has an automatic variable with an initializer AND your window was not wide enough to read this whole error message
19. Not tonight, I've got a headache.
20. I consider the most critical of all have determined that there is an error on line 42.

Source: http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2008/07/little-linux-and-unix-humor-error.html

I can not repeat that with the stable release of Debian you can do everything, but everything we normally do with any other distribution less conservative. For daily use, for carrying out their professional activities or even just for the game, most users seem to prefer Linux distributions very little oriented to security and stability only because they are constantly updated version of all'ultimissima any software.

I have already described in another post how we can benefit from the system of backports to update their favorite programs to a newer version of that included in the stable branch of Debian.

Debian Etch, however, is also ready to satisfy all our natural temptation to turn to see the killer application from Microsoft on our Linux box. Take, for example, the case dell'odiatissimo and beloved web browser Internet Explorer. To see him turn on our Debian Etch there are at least two valid solutions:

1. la suite Crossover Linux (alias: CXLinux) of CodeWeavers
2. the script IEs4Linux Sérgio Luís Lopes Júnior

The first solution is to pay, but really costs un'inezia than offers:

CrossOver Linux allows you to install many popular Windows productivity applications, plugins and games in Linux, without needing a Microsoft Operating System license. CrossOver includes an easy to use, single click interface, which makes installing a Windows application simple and fast. Once installed, your application seamlessly integrated with your KDE or Gnome environment. Just click and run your application, exactly as you would in Windows, but with the full freedom of Linux.

CrossOver Linux lets you use many Windows plugins directly from your Linux browser. Plugins work on any x86 based Linux distribution and will integrate with most browsers including Firefox 1.x, Netscape 6.x, Konqueror, Mozilla and Opera. CrossOver also integrates with Gnome and KDE to let you transparently open any Word, Excel or PowerPoint files. But even better, you can open these attachment types directly from any mail client.

I must admit, I have an affection for CXLinux particular, because for many years running on my Linux box (once called Crossover Office, alias: CXOffice) and often gives me enormous satisfaction.

The second solution is not to be underestimated at all: just as CXLinux, the script uses IEs4Linux `` wine to simulate the functionality of a system of home and Redmond us to turn over a good number of applications.

Here's how to install IEs4Linux on Debian Etch:

1. download and install (as root) dependencies minimum:
   # apt-get install wine cabextract binfmt-support
2. download (as a normal user) the latest version of the script installation:
   ~ wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
3. extract it with the usual `tar` command:
   ~ tar xvfz ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
4. move to the directory thus created:
   ~ cd ies4linux-*
5. run the script:
   ~ ./ies4linux

Now you're done! Will get a gui where you can select a few simple parameters to be passed to the script installation. Council to select only versions 6.0, 5.5 and 5.0 of Internet Explorer, even if the options are given the option to install version 7.0, this is a beta still very unstable and not recommended by the same Sérgio.

I recommend to anyone who has benefited from the script created by Sérgio Luís Lopes Júnior to pay the right offerings, just a single euro with PayPal. Here's the address where to find more information about how to contribute to its beautiful project:

http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Contribute

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