debian--Perfect Desktop Application

The contents of the modified/etc/apt/souces.list are as follows:
Deb Http://mirror.geekbone.org/debian Sarge main contrib Non-free
After running Apt-get update, run Apt-get upgrade upgrade.
This upgrade only upgrades the packages already installed on your machine, so there is still something to do.
First of course is to upgrade the core to 2.6.7-1-686. Run command: Apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686.
In this way, your/boot/directory has vmlinuz-2.6.7-1-686 and initrd-2.6.7-1-686 two files, edit/etc/lilo.conf file, add this starter option, run Lilo to make configuration changes. Reboot the machine into the new core system environment.

Then you have to configure your machine. Video card, sound card, network card, USB or something. At the core of 2.4, all rely on the/etc/modules file configuration, you can download modconf (apt-get install modconf) to modify this file, but for beginners this is undoubtedly very headache, so I recommend that you use Discover1 ( The older version is Discover, which is less capable of supporting hardware. This package manages its own hardware, and if Discover1 doesn't recognize one of your hardware, then use modconf to load it manually.
Install Discover:apt-get Install Discover1
Then run the lsmod command and you will find that a lot of hardware modules are loaded automatically. Of course, you may also need USB devices or PCMCIA inserts to automatically load the appropriate modules, then you need to install the HotPlug package and Udev software package (upgrade to 2.6 one of the benefits): Apt-get Install HotPlug udev, In fact, Udev depends on the HotPlug, if the installation of Udev,hotplug will be based on dependency automatically installed (this is the biggest advantage of Debian Linux, Redhat in this respect will often make people in the search for the dependencies of the packet crazy).
Obviously, your machine has been fully configured here. Now, just add the graphical interface. This is also very simple, apt-get install X-window-system can be installed on the XFree86 system, the process will remind you to configure XFree86, in the selection of video card you can choose VESA, when the general graphics driver, the rest of everything are hit return, Select the resolution to follow the preferences. (If the configuration is finished, startx command error, most of the mouse configuration is problematic, with lsmod confirmation Psmouse, Mousedev and Usbhid (USB mouse) module in, if not on Modprobe psmouse the Mousedev. )
And then install the GNOME graphics interface (I think GNOME is simpler than KDE): Apt-get install GNOME.
For GNOME, my rule is to return to the problem.
Well, then GDM, because without GDM, you have to manually start the graphical interface, or enter the XDM system, the command is: Apt-get install GDM.
When configuring GDM, select GDM as the default interface.
OK, basically everything has, is the lack of Chinese support, install it: Apt-get install locales.
In the process of installing locales, you are required to configure those regional environment support, my principle is that all the beginning of en and zh, are selected. The system then automatically generates local-language locales files for you.
Finished, is the Chinese font, very simple: Apt-get install Xfonts-intl-chinese can be.
Of course, these glyphs are not good-looking, if you want to TrueType fonts, to the forum to find it.
With the font, you can reboot the machine into the X-window system. When you log in, don't forget to select the Chinese simplified utf-8 in the language column on the left of the login window.
Then is the installation of FCITX Chinese Input method (this input method and pinyin is very similar, very useful, of course, there are wubi font.) ): Apt-get install FCITX. Then in the terminal run once FCITX can be entered in Chinese.


It's all settled. But this system is still far from the application, the following is the software that can be installed and its command:
OpenOffice (Office software suite similar to M￥office):
Apt-get Install OpenOffice.org openoffice.org-debian-files OPENOFFICE.ORG-L10N-ZH-CN OPENOFFICE.ORG-HELP-ZH-CN
Graphics processing software: (almost the same as Photoshop function)
Apt-get Install GIMP
MSN, Yahoo Instant messaging software (due to Tencent Boring, cancellation of support):
Apt-get Install Gaim
Gthumb image software (not worse than ACDSee):
Apt-get Install Gthumb
Gtkam digital camera software (supports many cameras without additional driver.) My old Canon A60 is supported):
Apt-get Install Gtkam
DVD Player Xine (can see a lot of format things, interface similar to WinDVD):
Apt-get install Xine-ui.
Realonegold software is going to real.com download.
Listen to MP3 's software bmp and Xmms:
Apt-get Install Beep-media-player Xmms
Very good Super Mario game SuperTux:
Apt-get Install SuperTux
Quake2 's Demo:
Apt-get Install Guake2
It's a fun game to play tank:
Apt-get Install Atanks

The kernel compiles a handbook

Debian's kernel compilation is easy and versioning is easy.
First, you need to download the Fakeroot and Kernal-package packages, of course, the development package is not small. The
then enters the source code directory, make CONIFG. Of course, I like to use make xconfig, which requires installing Libqt3-dev Packs: Apt-get install Libqt3-dev. The
make Xconfig has a lot of options inside it, which can cause the machine to start. Since I am a notebook, graphics cards, network cards, sound cards, and so on, will not change, so I only choose the things that are right for me, I have to note that in order to support hibernation, ATA support should be compiled into the core and not modules; and, although it is impossible to have a SCSI controller on your laptop, U disk is analog SCSI, so need SCSI support; network, I choose my own network card e100 good, in addition to remove IPV6 and a lot of what IPX, AppleTalk life can not use the support of things may make the system work more efficient; Characher In one of the device, choose your own AGP chipset and video card type; what's confusing for beginners is the graphic option, which is almost useless because you may never want to go in Chinese in the console, in general, I compile the VESAFB into the core, if I compile my graphics into the core, Nothing more than to allow the console to work at a higher resolution than the 1024
x768, to see more things; sound card, select the Alsa on the line, OSS has been abandoned, but many programs are still using OSS/DEV/DSP devices, if not selected OSS