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What a nice surprise, when my Linux Format arrived today with a copy of Debian 6! My favourite distro's latest incarnation. :-) No time to waste, I've got a VM running with a dual-core CPU and a gig of RAM, and the installation started. A couple of moments later (after following my own instructions to setup ssh etc.) and I have a perfectly functioning Debian install on my desktop. Now, on to my apt-get list of useful things to install: sudo apt-get install make sudo apt-get install gcc Install VMWare tools and then, fire up the Software Centre from System -> Administration -> Software Centre and choose to your heart's content. sudo apt-get install apache2 sudo apt-get install mercurial sudo apt-get install git sudo apt-get install curl sudo apt-get install zip Got Google Chromium browser (synchronised my bookmarks), even installed the Free-Pascal compiler and Lazarus (what a good job they've done). In general Debian 6 did not s...

This post is written for Debian but will work for other Debian based linux distros like Ubuntu. Debian is my personal favourite as it is stable, clean, fast and easy-to-use/configure. There is a wealth of information about Debian on the net, and the debian.org web-site is quite comprehensive and helpful. So you have installed a Debian 5 (Lenny) distro on a virtual machine in VMWare and cygwin on your windows desktop. This is a quick guide (doubles as a reference/reminder for myself) on how to install stuff and get you going. As stated above I assume this is where you are: You've downloaded an ISO image from your favourite distro web-site ( Ubuntu / Debian ). You have installed the distro on a VMWare instance and you gave it a name (e.g. 'debian5') You have a 'root' account and your own named account (e.g. 'username'), advisable to use the same username you use for Windows (helps when accessing your computer from cygwin) You have cygwin installed on your P...

Install Samba: apt-get install samba Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and change: workgroup = your windows workgroup name netbios name = xxx Add shares: [_downloads_user] path=/home/user/_downloads browsable=yes writeable=yes valid users = user admin users = user Restart Samba: /etc/init.d/samba restart