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Building PHP's Debian package nightmare

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I just tried to compile the Debian PHP packages, so I could make some minor tweaks to the source, to fix a bug I'm hopefully going to document shortly. This turned out to be very problematic, mainly due to the testing phase! To build the Debian packages you typically do the following: mkdir php cd php ...

Grub2 and Windows

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I've just installed grub2 on my Debian laptop, and I wanted to write a quick note on how to get dual booting working. Grub2 seems to have a far more complex configuration system than grub, this may be a good or a bad thing. One feature of this is a /etc/grub.d directory which contains a set ...