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Operating Systems Linux Fedora Help me choose an OS for my old intel 845 board Post 302571535 by Corona688 on Monday 7th of November 2011 03:52:31 PM

11-07-2011

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If you're not willing to try and get Linux working I have no advice for you. Linux has unusually broad hardware compatibility for a non-Windows OS, whose fanbase has pressured many manufacturers into partially supporting their products and gotten many hardware devices whose manufacturers don't even acknowledge their existence to work anyway.

I'm not aware of a BSD or Solaris distribution made to appeal to home-users. These kind of server OSes consider a gui firmly optional.

Two more relevant facts:
1) Intel graphics, especially older Intel graphics, isn't the pits just in Linux, it's the pits in most respects in general.
2) Intel tries to be pretty decent about Linux support for their graphics. They don't always succeed, but they try, and the community usually manages to kludge their efforts into working. Other alternative OSes may not be so lucky.

...suggests to me that the chipset is a lemon in general and you may be better off putting in a cheap nvidia or something.

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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)

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