GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide by Graham Williams
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Footnotes

... site^2.1

Actual document obtained from http://www3.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=101034

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... Project^3.1

GNU stands for the recursive ``GNU is Not Unix,'' and unlike the actual word gnu, the G in GNU is pronounced.

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... system.^3.2

http://www.cygwin.com

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... standard^4.1

The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) is described at http://www.pathname.com/fhs/. It consists of, to quote the site, a set of requirements and guidelines for file and directory placement under UNIX-like operating systems. They thus encourage the interoperability of applications, system administration tools, development tools, and scripts as well as greater uniformity of documentation for these systems. More GNU/Linux specific is the Linux Standard Base (LSB) with information at http://www.linuxbase.org/.

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...stable^5.1

The stable release of Debian GNU/Linux is a solid distribution which has been very extensively tested. It generally contains older releases of software that have proven to be quite stable.

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...unstable^5.2

While the unstable release sounds, well, unstable, it contains the most recent versions of all packages and is usually quite a stable product. Occasionally it suffers from a buggy package or two but are usually quickly fixed.

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... installer^5.3

The netinst, or network install, distributions are Debian CDs with a bare installer. The base OS and any additional packages you choose to install are downloaded from a Debian mirror.

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.../etc/cron.daily/apt-archive^7.1

Scripts in /etc/cron.daily with a py extension are not run, so be sure to rename the file as suggested here.

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... kernel^10.1

Current Debian kernels have CONFIG_APM as a module but CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE is not set.

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