*THANK YOU*I spent several productive days reading. Following links to links was good also.
Patrick Bartek wrote:
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014, Richard Owlett wrote:My goal: understand Debian from a fairly low level on up Environment: a laptop dedicated exclusively as a learning environment Resources: complete DVD sets for Squeeze and Wheezy (totally isolated from internet ;) [ snipped by Owlett ] What should I be reading to understand: 1. what would be minimal set of programs to install? 2. what scripts get run after a cold or warm boot? (I've discovered I know less about that than I thought I did.)I've already done what you want (and a little more) with this system. It runs Wheezy 64-bit and Openbox with LXpanel. Nothing much more. It'll work without LXpanel, if need be. The differences are: it's a production system; it's networked; and it's not a laptop.
[ snip excellent set of instructions to emphasize references ]
REFERENCES http://linux-sxs.org/ http://www.linux-tutorial.info/index.php http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/410 https://wiki.debian.org/Openbox https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Openbox/HOWTO https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Openbox http://urukrama.wordpress.com/openbox-guide/ http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Contents https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/PerfectSetup/ https://wiki.debian.org/ALSA http://www.linux.com/news/hardware/peripherals/180950-udev http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Connect_your_devices_with_udev https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev#Automounting_UDisks_Wrappers https://soosck.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/improved-udev-rule-arch-linux/ http://sysadmincorner.wordpress.com/2012/04/05/writing-custom-udev-rules/ http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html http://shallowsky.com/blog/linux/udev-cardreaders-update.html http://blog.fpmurphy.com/2011/08/introduction-to-udisks.html https://wiki.debian.org/tasksel