Debian HOW-TO: sources & extras

To get a good Desktop out of Debian, well you need some multimedia capabilities.

Mines come from Christian Marillat's repository, check out his homepage.

There are tons of repositories avalaible for Debian (most are for Sid, the unstable branch). The apt-get site has an extensive list.

If you have an ATI card and you're a Debian newbie, well you'll like this. It's the work of one man: Flavio Stanchina. His drivers work flawlessly, just follow the instructions, which are fairly simple (scary at first, but straight to point if you take the time to read them).

Mr. Stanchina's site his a very good alternative for those who want to keep things standard (no custom kernel).

I'm preparing a paper on how to compile a kernel for a Debian desktop machine in a few minimal steps. In the mean time, be sure to take a look at the "custom kernel compilation" section of this page.

Keep on hacking!