Among the first things a Debian installer does is making me select a proper keyboard layout. For a setup including disk encryption that makes me enter a password with a German keyboard layout just as I asked it to: good. After reboot, things look a little different: I am expected to enter my password with [...]
For my new work notebook I am aiming for a setup with Debian and Gentoo side by side. I installed Gentoo first and went for adding Debian today. For a notebook I want full disk encyrption of course and my plans were to use one big dm-crypt container for everything except /boot. Interestingly, the installer [...]
As with every major Free Software project there is always work to do in Debian, e.g. tasks related to packaging. I have been working on a new web view onto the “Packaging Todo List” in hope to better answer the question “How can I help Debian?”. (I’m working on the third package myself now and [...]
I stumbled over a neat tool call apt-rdepends today. It can list forward and reverse dependencies as well as generate dot graphs from that. Here are two little examples. Recursive forward dependency lookup of package git-arch as graph: apt-rdepends –dotty git-arch | dot -Tpng > git_deps.png The output looks like this: Non-recursive reverse dependency lookup [...]
I have no idea why but Ubuntu doesn’t allow to configure the screensavers it comes with. Not those screensavers were not configurable, but in contrast to xscreensaver-demo, Ubuntu itself does not offer access to their visual config What I wanted to do is stop GLMatrix from rotating the matrix, which would have been -no-rotate on [...]
