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  2. Debian configuration system - Wikipedia

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    When packages are being installed, debconf asks the user questions which determine the contents of the system-wide configuration files associated with that package. After package installation, it is possible to go back and change the configuration of a package by using the dpkg-reconfigure program, or another program such as Synaptic .

  3. User-mode Linux - Wikipedia

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    User-mode Linux (UML) is a virtualization system for the Linux operating system based on an architectural port of the Linux kernel to its own system call interface, which enables multiple virtual Linux kernel-based operating systems (known as guests) to run as an application within a normal Linux system (known as the host).

  4. Debian-Installer - Wikipedia

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    Debian-Installer is a system installer for Debian and its derivatives. It originally appeared in Skolelinux (Debian-Edu) 1.0, [ 2 ] released in June 2004, but is now used as the official installation system since Debian 3.1 (Sarge), which was released on June 6, 2005.

  5. dpkg - Wikipedia

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    dpkg-genchanges reads the information from an unpacked Debian tree source that once constructed creates a control file (.changes). dpkg-buildpackage is a control script that can be used to construct the package automatically. dpkg-distaddfile adds a file input to debian/files.

  6. APT (software) - Wikipedia

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    Advanced Package Tool (APT) is a free-software user interface that works with core libraries to handle the installation and removal of software on Debian and Debian-based Linux distributions. [4] APT simplifies the process of managing software on Unix-like computer systems by automating the retrieval, configuration and installation of software ...

  7. deb (file format) - Wikipedia

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    Diagram showing an example file structure of a .deb file Frhed hex editor displaying the raw data of a Debian package. Prior to Debian 0.93, a package consisted of a file header and two concatenated gzip archives. [6] Since Debian 0.93, a deb package is implemented as an ar archive. [7] This archive contains three files in a specific order: [8] [9]

  8. User-Mode Driver Framework - Wikipedia

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    However, UMDF would not be used for performance-intensive or highly stateful devices. The first version of the UMDF was shipped as part of Windows Media Player version 10 on 2004-10-12. Code-named "Crescent", it was designed to support the Media Transfer Protocol driver, and no public interfaces or documentation were provided for it.

  9. Data corruption - Wikipedia

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    The adjacent image is a corrupted image file in which most of the information has been lost. Some types of malware may intentionally corrupt files as part of their payloads , usually by overwriting them with inoperative or garbage code, while a non-malicious virus may also unintentionally corrupt files when it accesses them.