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The Debian GNU/Linux project needs more support - men, money and machines. But, apart from HP, big corporates don’t offer the project much. This was the subject of a talk delivered today by two software engineers who work in research and development at Silicon Graphics in Melbourne.

Anibal Monsalve Salazar and Niv Sardi are both Debian developers; the points they raised resulted in a lively discussion during the Debian mini-conference at the Australian national Linux conference.

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Dillo is a extremely stable, fast and light web browser. Based on GTK+, you can install Dillo from apt-get or snyaptic for just about any hardware platform and window manager supported by Debian or Ubuntu. Dillo is written entirely in C for speed and compatibility and is best for tasks where being fast and frugal on memory are the highest priorities. Perfect for large image archive displays!

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Making a backup disk is usually an obvious task, but making the disk ready to boot so that it can immediately be used as a replacement can be tricky. Here I give a recipe for making a bootable disk that can be adapted to whatever block device you may be using as a backup disk. This could be an internal or external hard disk, a USB key, etc.

I discuss some of the tricks that will avoid creation of a backup system disk that only gets as far as displaying

        GRUB

before it freezes. A number of other pitfalls are mentioned.

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I saw this post just a few minutes ago and I realized that there may be quite a few people out there that either don’t know or have forgotten that you can usually reset the configuration on ANY package by using one simple command.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure <package-name-here>

You can omit the “sudo” if you’re already logged in as root. It’s a pretty simple command but it has great power. You can reconfigure any package installed through dpkg (which includes apt-get and synaptic).