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10 questions to ask before migrating to Linux
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10thi ... rbxccnbtr1

10+ mistakes Linux newbies make
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/10-mistak ... make/34444

10 mistakes new Linux administrators make
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=455

The 10 most useful Linux commands
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10thi ... rbxccnbtr1

10 reasons to make KDE 4.5 your desktop of choice
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10thi ... ;post-1801

10 Linux desktops you shouldn't overlook
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10thi ... rbxccnbtr1

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Nota Bene: I take no responsibility for any damage done to your system. Please proceed with caution.

Installation of Dedian 8.0.0 Jessie

1) Download image:
I got mine from:
cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.0.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-8.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso
It is a very small image (about 280 MB) and suited for x64-bit Systems.
It features a graphical installer similar to Ubuntu 14.04 or Windows Vista / 7.

Also check out:
https://www.debian.org/distrib/
https://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst

2) Burn image to a CD and boot your PC from that CD.

3) Follow the onscreen instructions -- more or less. Select language, region, keyboard layout and Hard Disk partitioning, among other stuff. If you are not sure what to select, Debian will provide (with the more trickier choices) a selection which is best suited for most users. You can also make screenshots during the various steps of the installation which are saved to
/var/log/installer/
as .png files.

Note: You'll very likely need a PC or notebook that is connected to the internet via a registered jack 45 cable.

Other Stuff

4) Adding you user to the sudoers:
If you use sudo in combination with other commands and get the message "user is not in sudoers file".
As root type in the following in the Terminal:
adduser username sudo
You username is the one that shows up when you open the terminal. Left of the cursor you will find something like:
username@pc name:~$
You'll need to log off and on again for the changes to be effective.

5) Getting updates.
Modify (as root user or with sudo in the Terminal) the sources.list file under /etc/apt so that it contains the following lines:
deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org jessie main non-free
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org jessie-backports main

You might want to change the "ftp.at" part to the country you're living in.
The last 2 lines are for all those multimedia updates (video player, ...)

To update your PC, go to the Terminal, change to root and type:
aptitude update
aptitude upgrade
or use the sudo command:
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude upgrade

6) Installing downloaded packages (.deb):
In the Terminal go to the directory you downloaded the package and (as root) type:
dpkg -i <package-file-name>
(without the "<>", of course)
or use the sudo command:
sudo dpkg -i <package-file-name>

Note: All of this info can be easily (more or less) found in the web.

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