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Operating Systems Linux SuSE ubuntu to pure debian Post 302193861 by era on Sunday 11th of May 2008 02:04:00 PM

05-11-2008

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You can usually get the same drivers you have on Ubuntu, you just need to know what they are and maybe peek a little bit under the hood how they are configured. If they are "restricted" then they are not available as part of Debian proper, but you can get them from the same place as Ubuntu gets them, or maybe even retrofit the Ubuntu drivers if you're a little clever.

Knoppix is a live distro which I believe has a rather vocal customization community, and it's Debian-based. Maybe you want to try that. It's sort of leaning towards Ubuntu in that they take drivers where they can get them, regardless of those pesky firmware licensing issues, but it should be one of the easiest to get rolling.

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distro-info

DISTRO-INFO(1)						      General Commands Manual						    DISTRO-INFO(1)

NAME

       distro-info - provides information about the distributions' releases

SYNOPSIS

       distro-info [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

       distro-info is a symlink to the distro-info command for your distribution.  On Debian it links to debian-distro-info and on Ubuntu it links
       to ubuntu-distro-info.  All options described in this manual page are available in all distro-info commands. All other options,	which  are
       not described here, are distribution specific.

OPTIONS

       --date=DATE
	      date for calculating the version (default: today)

       -h, --help
	      display help message and exit

       -a, --all
	      list all known versions

       -d, --devel
	      latest development version

       -s, --stable
	      latest stable version

       --supported
	      list of all supported stable versions

       --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

       debian-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 						    DISTRO-INFO(1)