02-09-2013
Thanks for the help, I have installed Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) Stable and it has worked great I ended up installing the 3.2.0 kernel from back-ports because the iwlagn driver didn't support my wireless card but the driver in the 3.2.0 kernel does. So far it is working great and I have set it up with KDE4 along with Gnome 2.x. I am really enjoying the stability and security of Debian.
3 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. Debian
I have a Logitech Quickcam for Notebook and I am trying to install it. When I do the "make" command I get this error:
user@host: /usr/src/modules/gspca$ make
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/modules/gspca CC=cc modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.24-1-686/build: No such... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Texasone
1 Replies
2. Debian
Hello, Unix - Forums.
How can I set the DE to KDE on a fresh, netinst image of Debian Stable?
By default, it installs GNOME. Is there a way to change that? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: intelinside
1 Replies
3. Debian
Hello,
I need to upgrade my Debian system 7.8 to 8.5 but by default via apt-get It moves to 8.6 version(latest stable version). I'm new to Debian so didn't figure out the solution.
I've checked few suggestions over internet like editing apt source list file using snapshot archive.
Please... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Mannu2525
2 Replies
LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
debian-distro-info
DEBIAN-DISTRO-INFO(1) General Commands Manual DEBIAN-DISTRO-INFO(1)
NAME
debian-distro-info - provides information about Debian's distributions
SYNOPSIS
debian-distro-info [OPTIONS]
OPTIONS
--date=DATE
date for calculating the version (default: today)
-h, --help
display help message and exit
--alias=DIST
print the alias (stable, testing, unstable) relative to the distribution codename passed as an argument. Only distribution code-
names composed of lower case ASCII letters are accepted, and if the distribution does not qualify as stable, testing or unstable,
then the same codename passed as argument is returned.
-a, --all
list all known versions
-d, --devel
latest development version
-o, --old
latest old (stable) version
-s, --stable
latest stable version
--supported
list of all supported stable versions
-t, --testing
latest testing version
--unsupported
list of all unsupported stable versions
-c, --codename
print the codename (default)
-r, --release
print the release version
-f, --fullname
print the full name
SEE ALSO
distro-info(1), ubuntu-distro-info(1)
AUTHOR
The script and this manual page was written by Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>.
distro-info January 2011 DEBIAN-DISTRO-INFO(1)