Depo Catcher wrote:
I've played around with this a bit and considering switching over my
workstation to Debian.
Currently I use FreeBSD - but the Virtual Machine software I use
(VMWare) it's supported as well as on Linux.
Few questions I have:
During install there is an option to install to encrypted disk which
is pretty sweet sounding.
How does that work, I'm assuming everything but /boot is encrypted?
Does it use GELI or something else?
What is the default encryption used and is there any way to change it?
Does Linux support crypto cards that work with this?
A quick google "crypto cards debian" seems to indicate it does, however,
I have no knowledge of this.
I take it apt-get is the way to maintain packages on Debian? Say I
want to apply all the security patches [or to get all updates] for my
version, is there an easy way to do that?
it is a simple as "apt-get upgrade" All packages not requiring the
removal of other packages will be upgraded. "apt-get dist-upgrade" will
remove "older" packages and upgrade all packages. Use this one with
care, but should not be an issue if you are running stable. Mostly used
to track testing or unstable or to completely upgrade to a new version
(i.e. a new stable was released or you want to track unstable)
If a person wanted, could they recompile all packages from source (and
use optimized complier options) instead of installing from binaries?
Yes, however, I don't, so exactly how to do this , I don't know, but
here is the doc on that:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-sourcehandling.en.html
When I start it up (just did base install for some testing) I get a
bunch of "Starting XXX ... Warning: Fake start-stop =daemon called,
doing nothing."
Where XXX is and rc/init job. What's that about?
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=8007
Thanks
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Damon L. Chesser
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