On Sun,05.Oct.08, 19:34:01, Jason C. Wells wrote: >> File systems and hardware support are actually provided by the >> kernel. "Encryption" is a bit vague and network protocols... a lot >> of them. What exactly are you looking for? >> > I'm looking for the docs for the purpose of understanding support for > UFS/UFS2, IPV6, OpenBSD PF, ipfw, ipchains or other firewall, NFS version, > and my AC97 sound chip. I found a variety of blog-type comments on these > things but I was hoping for something @debian.org which I would presume > would be more authoritative. UFS/UFS2: I see the ufsutils and libufs2 packages and there is also an ufs kernel module, so I assume there is at least some level of support, but they are only present in unstable, so I don't know if they'll be part of the next release. IPv6: should be supported out of the box firewall: Debian GNU/Linux uses the built-in capabilities of the kernel (netfilter). Iptables is used for configuring it, but many prefer to use some kind of wrapper (ex. shorewall). NFS: the nfs-kernel-server package is version 1.0.10 in etch and lenny will probably ship with 1.1.2. The version in lenny claims to support NFSv3 and NFSv4. The version in etch doesn't have this information in the package description, I would try the README.Debian file. AC97 sound chip: Linux has decent support for a lot of chips, but it's impossible to tell without chipset manufacturer/brand/version and so. In the end the best way to test would be to boot with a Debian Live image. > I am coming the the understanding that each of the packages that comprises > a debian release is documented independently. It seems that the bulk of > debian documentation is 1) installation and 2) package management. It also > seems like the next best place to find documentation is TLDP. Package specific documentation is either found in the package itself or in a package named <packagename>-doc, if the size is significant enough to warrant the split. In general the README.Debian file in /usr/share/doc/<packagename>/ should be the first to check. A lot of Debian specific documentation can be found in the wiki, where the Debian Reference would be a good start. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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