Archive for January, 2009
Debian on Android phone
Saturday, January 17th, 2009 | debian, english, gadgets | Comments Off
A Debian installer and boot loader for Android based phones has been released. It uses Debian ARM packages from standard repositories, so it makes available t you the full plethora of Debian packages. Also, as a bonus, you can still your phone as it was, an Android based device, with all its functionality.
Update: This entry was pending of an update since I read Joey Hess’ entry investigating into the supposed installer.
It seems that the .zip file is a complete disaster: it is a Debian chroot and 100MB of it are cached .deb files in /var and the init process is no more no less than a script that echoes some lines making you think that something is being booted and a last command (the only that actually makes something) is a mere chroot $mnt /bin/bash.
What does this mean? That you can run Debian in your Android phone by simply creating a chroot from your nearest Debian repository, and that’s all. No need of any supposed installer, just run debootstrap on the phone.
Speed up multiple SSH connections to same server
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 | english, howto | Comments Off
I am copying here the tip I read in Linux Journal so I won’t need to google for it when needed. It works by multiplexing connections to the same server in the same TCP connection. For this to work, it needs a socket to track each connection.
You have to add these lines to ~/.ssh/config file:
Host *
ControlMaster auto
ControlPath ~/.ssh/master-%r@%h:%p
Postfix+TLS+SASL in Debian HowTo recovered
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 | debian, english, howto | Comments Off
Once of the most visited pages in my site was the Postfix+SASL+TLS for Debian Sid and Sarge Howto, who I wrote 3 years ago. As I hosted it in my old home server, when it broke it went offline, and though there are still some copies around the net, there are a lot of referals still directing traffic to tribulaciones.org.
Now I have recovered it and it is now available again. I will write an .htaccess file to redirect people to the new place and, with some more time, I will review it to see if there are some changes needed for Lenny.
Enjoy!
UPDATED 14/01/2009: I have added promised .htaccess file, so every link to old URL (http://www.tribulaciones.org/docs/postfix-sasl-tls-howto.html) will work again.
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