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Operating Systems Linux SuSE ubuntu to pure debian Post 302199356 by System Shock on Monday 26th of May 2008 08:03:43 PM

05-26-2008

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..well, as a Debian user myself (my main OS being Solaris), I'd suggest you don't waste time trying to load Ubuntu and Debian on the same box. They're practically the same, with Ubuntu the more newbie-friendly. If you want to learn, I'd suggest you stick with one, learn it fairly well, then jump to other distributions like SuSE or RH , because then you have a better grasp of a Linux-based OS and it will be easier for you to see the differences among the distributions.

As for the atheros-based wireless card, atheros is probably the more common chipset, and should be pretty easy to make it work using ndiswrapper, using Windows drivers.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...er/Ndiswrapper

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what-patch

WHAT-PATCH(1)						      General Commands Manual						     WHAT-PATCH(1)

NAME

       what-patch - detect which patch system a Debian package uses

SYNOPSIS

       what-patch [options]

DESCRIPTION

       what-patch examines the debian/rules file to determine which patch system the Debian package is using.

       what-patch should be run from the root directory of the Debian source package.

OPTIONS

       Listed below are the command line options for what-patch:

       -h, --help
	      Display a help message and exit.

       -v     Enable verbose mode.  This will include the listing of any files modified outside or the debian/ directory and report any additional
	      details about the patch system if available.

AUTHORS

       what-patch was written by Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>, Siegfried-A. Gevatter <rainct@ubuntu.com>, and  Daniel  Hahler  <ubuntu@thequod.de>,
       among others.  This manual page was written by Jonathan Patrick Davies <jpds@ubuntu.com>.

       Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later.

SEE ALSO

       The Ubuntu MOTU team has some documentation about patch systems at the Ubuntu wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/PatchSystems

       cdbs-edit-patch(1), dbs-edit-patch(1), dpatch-edit-patch(1)

DEBIAN
								 Debian Utilities						     WHAT-PATCH(1)