It is built from Ubuntu as the base using Gnome, but adds a lot of its own configuration tools, adapted synaptic package, and a nice menu system. The installation is from a live CD and will be familiar to anyone installing Ubuntu or Fedora from live media. The menu system allows for easy search and access to all your applications and ability to bookmark you favorite applications.

Once installed I could watch flash on YouTube and Hulu, listen to mp3s and watch wmv, mpg and avi movies. At first I could use totem to play a comercial (encripted) dvd, but then a few days latter when i tried again, it wouldn’t work leaving me to install VLC. I could not find a solution online; however, others have experienced the same problem. All the applications a desktop user would need where installed, OpenOffice, Firefox, gFTP, pidgin, Transmission, etc. One criticism, was the inclusion of Gnome M Player, M player and Totem seemed redundant.

The crowning achievement of this distribution is that it is multimedia capable from a fresh install. I only had to install the proprietary nVidia drivers via the standard restricted drivers interface common in Ubuntu. Once done, enabling Compiz effects was easy as in Ubuntu. Though Mint is built from Ubuntu as a foundation, it is more then a simple Ubuntu remaster, with the time and detail spent to polishing the user interface, installing all needed media codecs, flash and java. It has the task bar and menu along the bottom, making it comfortable to anyone migrating from the Windows world.

alsa force-reload

to solve this problem edit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and add:

alias snd-card-0 snd_hda_intel
alias snd-card-1 snd_usb_audio

Reboot and hopefully all is well.

NOTE: you may have to change snd_hda_intal to match whatever sound device your computer has.

Open Windows Explorer and click Organize at the top left and then select Folder Options. Now go to the View tab and there it is, looking much like it did in Windows XP. For whatever reason this was not readily evident to me and it might not be for others.

I have made a package for this and added it to the Oojah!Repo for public use on Debian based systems.

In the System Settings go to Regional & Language under the Locale I add US English. Under Time & Date I change Time format: to pH:MM:SS AMPM. Then I hope over to the Other tab and set Measure system: to Imperial.

Restart KDE.

sudo aptitude install samba
gpasswd -a user sambashare
smbpasswd -a user
sudo mkdir /home/samba/share
sudo mkdir /home/samba/share/profiles
sudo mkdir /home/samba/share/netlogon
sudo chgrp sambashare /home/samba/
sudo chgrp sambashare /home/samba/share
sudo chgrp sambashare /home/samba/netlogon
sudo chgrp sambashare /home/samba/profiles
sudo chmod 775 /home/samba
sudo chmod 775 /home/samba/share
sudo chmod 775 /home/samba/profiles
sudo chmod 775 /home/samba/netlogon
sudo cp /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf.back

at the bottom of /samba/smb.conf add (as root):

[sambashare]
path = /home/samba/share
valid users = @sambashare
read list = @sambashare
write list = @sambashare
force group = sambashare
read only = No
create mask = 0774
directory mask = 0775

then start and stop the samba server:

sudo /etc/init.d/samba stop
sudo /etc/init.d/samba start

In Windows 7 open Windows Explorer and you should see your linux computers host name. clicking on it will prompt you to give the user name and pasword created above. Now you should have a blank folder called sambashare, try moving things in there. If you see the files show up on your linux box then everything worked.you will also see your user’s home directory but will not be allowed to write to it.

NOTE: this was done with Debian Squeeze, however the same processes should apply to Debian Lenny.

<?php
header( ‘Location: http://www.example.com/new_page.html’ ) ;
?>

If you want to redirect an entire directory simply name this file index.php

NOTE: If you want a permanent redirect because you have moved your website and wish to keep your linkbacks from google and other search-engines and sites, follow the directions here.

First I copied all my packages tot he location on my public server space where I wanted the repository to be stored. I create a directory called binary and copy the deb files into it.  I issue the following command:

dpkg-scanpackages /path/to/repo/ /dev/null | gzip -9c > Packages.gz

(replace /path/to/repo with appropriate directory)

Now I edited my /etc/apt/sources.list file and entered:

deb file:///path/to/repo

or if it is on a remote server

deb http://example.com/path-to-repo ./

I updated my repositories with apt-get update, fired up synaptic and searched for one of my packages. When I found it I installed it.

NOTE: I found this PDF which explains both and gives details instructions on both

NOTE: I also had to edit the Packages file inside of Packages.gz and remove the paths from my packages filenames when I was using a remote server.

NOTE: you can now use The Public Oojah!Tech Repositories for Debian