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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Redhat versus Ubuntu Linux distribution Post 302955973 by gandolf989 on Thursday 24th of September 2015 09:43:07 AM

09-24-2015

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I'm not sure, but I thought that you had to pay for a Redhat license if you want to use Redhat. Perhaps that is only if you want to use it for commercial purposes. If you are, then you should probably look into that. There are two other versions of Linux that would work as well. Centos is essentially a free clone of Redhat. You don't get the same support that you would get if you had a Redhat license, but it is essentially the same. There is also Scientific Linux, which is sponsored for the Fermi National Accelerator Lab.

https://www.scientificlinux.org/

Scientific Linux does have some differences in libraries, but it should work the same. Generally Redhat and Redhat clones use YUM for maintaining packages. I have Ubuntu at home. I have Oracle 11.2.0.2 installed and running, as well as mySQL, and a test version of Request Tracker that I am testing. It works fine for what I need. It just has more user friendly packages along with things that you would need for databases or web servers.

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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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								 Debian Utilities						     WHAT-PATCH(1)