Howto Install and Customize CUPS-PDF in Debian

CUPS-PDF provides a PDF Writer backend to CUPS. This can be used as a virtual printer in a paperless network or to perform testing on CUPS.Documents are written to a configurable directory (by default to ~/PDF) or can be further manipulated by a post-processing command.

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Ubuntu Netbook Remix and Debian Lenny on the Samsung NC10

Motivation

I like Debian for its stability and predictability. And I like Ubuntu Netbook Remix for its suitability for small screen devices like the NC10. Running Ubuntu is in some sense like gambling – you never know if the next update will be a winner or a loser. So I decided to take the best of both worlds and combine Debian’s predictability with the beauty of UNR. At the end I got a system which behaves exactly like I want it to: almost all special keys are supported, the automatic power management works like expected and the system is its biggest part plain Debian Lenny.

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