Articles tagged ‘debian’

If you get an error message during apt-get update saying you're missing some public keys, here's how to fix it.

Quick installation and setup instructions for both an IMAP server with TLS and a client for it.

The simple reason for which resolvconf sucks is that it replaces a firm, traditional Linux legacy such as /etc/resolv.conf with an unusable mess.

I think many a Debian user has felt the need to somehow tell apt to stop hogging all the bandwidth during one of those long dist-upgrade’s. Unfortunately, apt doesn’t feature a built-in bandwidth limiter. Fortunately, a userspace bandwidth shaper exists, and it’s called trickle. If you run a command from the console through trickle, it will preload [...]

I run Debian unstable and these past days I’ve been unpleasantly surprised by GCC 4.0 a number of times. It had been introduced in the system automatically by bulk upgrades, but soon problems started arising. One one particular system, more or less everything I compiled issued warnings related to pointer signedness. On my home box I [...]

Linux systems come packaged in distributions and they all have to deal with architecture issues. When you try to choose one of them you first ask yourself what you need it to be like, and then choose from the wide variety available.