I was looking around for people’s opinions of running Debian vs. Ubuntu Server. A lot of people think there’s no reason to run Ubuntu because it’s just a derivative of Debian. One person has an actual difference between the two: Debian doesn’t have Upstart. Upstart is the init daemon which starts services, and restarts them [...]
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Earlier this year, X.org made a boneheaded move to drop the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace key combination as a default for killing the X Server. Huh? The X Server is the part of a Linux operating environment that provides graphics. Once in a while it may lock up, usually due to bad drivers. Other times programs just happen [...]
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