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Debian is the Operating System I use at home and used to use at work.
Official website: http://www.debian.org/
As introduction, please read the entry at Wikipedia.
There a 3 distributions at the same time:
Backports are ports from software coming from unstable or testing for stable.
There are several front-ends:
deborphan | sudo xargs apt-get remove -y
dpkg --get-selections | grep " install$"
aptitude install debootstrap mkdir /sid-root debootstrap sid /sid-root http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ #output: ... I: Base system installed successfully. umount: /sid-root/dev/pts: not mounted umount: /sid-root/dev/shm: not mounted umount: /sid-root/proc/bus/usb: not mounted echo "proc-sid /sid-root/proc proc none 0 0" >> /etc/fstab mount proc-sid /sid-root/proc -t proc cp /etc/hosts /sid-root/etc/hosts chroot /sid-root /bin/bash # on est dans la geole #fix sources.list apt-setup # changer sarge en unstable vi /etc/apt/sources.list # changer le password de root passwd root #pour avoir un login sur F10 # attention: pas dans la geole! echo "10:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/chroot /sid-root "\ "/sbin/getty 38400 tty10" >> /etc/inittab init q