Usually modern desktop Linux distributions make it easy to automatically mount external storage media like USB flash sticks. But if all else fails this article may help you.
Debian Sarge by default uses the Grub boot loader. Whether to use Lilo or Grub is a matter of taste. Actually they do not look much different when booting the system. But Grub has a tiny built in shell that allows you to boot certain partitions even if your boot configuration is broken. If you had used Lilo and made a mistake in your lilo.conf you would need to get a rescue disk.
These are the necessary changes to switch from Lilo to Grub...
Bacula is a nifty backup software that is network-capable and stores data in the database for faster retrieval in case you need a certain file back. As a big fan of cheat sheets I created this cheat sheet.
You are contributing to the Debian distribution already and consider becoming an official Debian developer? I'm sponsoring a lot of packages (I once was the third most diligent sponsor) and there almost always comes a time that I get asked: "Actually I would like to become a Debian Developer (DD) myself. What do you think? Do you help me?" I hate that question! ;) Let me explain why.
pbuilder is a tool to use debootstrap for automatic package building in a clean environment. Confused already? debootstrap is a tool to create an encapsulated Debian environment inside a Debian installation. Imagine you run Sid (the "unstable" branch of Debian) and want to build a package for the stable branch Sarge. Then you can use debootstrap to install Sarge below a directory in your file system. When it's done you use chroot to get there and presto you are in a Sarge environment.
Although I'm still not entirely comfortable with Git for revision control I partly use it to maintain my Debian packages. Mainly because hg-buildpackage has been abandoned and git-buildpackage is actively maintained. This article deals with co-maintaining a Debian package with Git and git-buildpackage.
Your Debian package should contain a .desktop file if it's a graphical/X11/GUI application. It makes the application available to at least KDE and Gnome without stuffing everything into the ugly Debian submenu.
I would like to help any developers to get their software into Debian. So I'm offer sponsorship for your packages. I created this page to give you a bit of information about how I think sponsoring can be easy for both of us.
If you are maintaining Debian packages then you probably know the problem that you have a number of upstream versions and revisions flying around your file system. There is a nice way to handle different revisions through the SubVersion repository system: svn-buildpackage from Eduard Bloch. To make things truly perfect you can even use the pbuilder but then it becomes a mess of different man pages and command line options. I have gone through that so you won't have to.
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