fortunes-debian-hints is package that contains useful hints for users and developers. If you have encounter any good hints that can be useful to all of us, please add it here.

Remarks

Current Hints

The current file contains:

Debian Hint #1:

Debian Hint #2:

Debian Hint #3:

Debian Hint #4:

Debian Hint #5:

Debian Hint #6:

Debian Hint #7:

Debian Hint #8:

Debian Hint #9:

Debian Hint #10:

Debian Hint #11:

Debian Hint #12:

Debian Hint #13:

Debian Hint #14:

Debian Hint #15:

Debian Hint #16:

Debian Hint #17:

Debian Hint #18:

Debian Hint #19:

Debian Hint #20:

Debian Hint #21:

Debian Hint #22:

Debian Hint #23:

Debian Hint #24:

Debian Hint #25:

Debian Hint #26:

Debian Hint #27:

Debian Hint #28:

Debian Hint #29:

Debian Hint #30:

Debian Hint #31:

Debian Hint #34:

Debian Hint #35:

Debian Hint #36:

Debian Hint #37:

Debian Hint #38:

Debian Hint #39:

New proposed hints

Check existing hints above, before adding new ones, It may be already added. Please also consider improving previous hints to make it better!


No extra hint here, just a typo(?). In Hint #38 it's said "uptodate" which might be more correct as "up-to-date". Didn't want to change it directly...


Hint #31 needs updating for the new insserv dependency-ordering world; it should use update-rc.d rather than direct manipulation of links.


Hint #29 shouldn't recommend ntpdate; ntp works fine in all cases, and it handles machines which don't always have Internet connections or which don't stay up for long periods of time. Furthermore, ntp doesn't step the clock like ntpdate does, which avoids various potential problems.


Debian Hint #40:


Debian Hint #41:


Debian Hint #42:


Debian Hint #43:


Debian Hint #44:


Debian Hint #45:


Debian Hint #3 should mention that aptitude search does the same job.

Translations

You can also provide translation of hints too.

Available translations are: de fr hu pt tr vi zh_CN zh_TW

New translations: Grab po4a/hints.pot from latest source package to start with translation.