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Just how would it look if Mac were to come with Dell laptops.

The screenshot might give some picture.

At times, for people like me who use a heterogeneous set of packages, it becomes necessary to put certain packages on “hold” so that nothing breaks.

The plain dpkg way of putting packages on hold is very very simple.
I’ll be taking a package named “foo” as an example. Here are the steps:

**pre >1) dpkg –get-selections foo > selections.txt

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This will give you the package and its state on your system. The output written to selections.txt would be something like this:
**pre >foo install

My first contribution to FSF. pypt- offline is an offline package manager for Debian and its derivatives.

A small talk I gave about Debian and its merits at the ILGUD on 18th of April, 2004.

Useful documentation about my notebook, Compaq Presario 2203AL, running Debian

The following talk is all about Debian for which I was made to speak at the ILUGD meet held on the 18th of April 2004. Most of the references in this talk has been taken from Manoj Srivastava’s (Lead Debian Developer) talk.

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Why Debian

Debian – Philosophy, Merits and Key Features

Philosophy ** **

Philosophy is the most durable differentiating criterion between the operating systems we are considering. Performance numbers change. Ease of use, reliability, availability of software – all these characteristics change over time, and you have to go out and re-evaluate them over time.