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S3TC (sometimes called DXTn or DXTC) is a proprietary image compression algorithm. This was patented (US Patent 5,956,431) and thus Mesa cannot use it directly nor external library can enter Debian archive. If you want to have libtxc-dxtn installed you have to do it yourself.
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ZSNES is a GPL licensed emulator of the Super Famicom and Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) video game systems. Large part of ZSNES is written in assembly. Fortunately it works under GNU/Linux. Debian has a zsnes package, but unfortunately only for i386. Binary package is not available for AMD64. So? Lets build one!
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Installing, configuring and using Debian GNU/Linux on Acer Aspire 5102 WLMi notebook.
suEXEC feature provides Apache users the ability to run CGI programs under user IDs different from the web server user ID. Normally, when a CGI program executes, it runs as the same user who is running the web server. In most configurations PHP scripts are handled by mod_php and cannot suEXEC. After switching to php-cgi we are able to use suEXEC.
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Using Wine introduces new threats to your Linux box. One day every computer virus prepared to run under Windows will smoothly run under Wine. Some time ago I wrote ClamFS, a FUSE-based user-space file system for Linux with on-access anti-virus file scanning. It uses well known Open Source virus scanner – Clam AntiVirus. ClamFS was designed to protect Samba shares and FTP servers with upload enabled. Here is small guide how to configure ClamFS to protect Wine installation form viruses.
