Hello, I'm doing coursework for my computing GCSE and I need help getting most/most notorious Linux issues and fixes. I request that the issues only be for Debian based Linux. Thank you the help is much appreciated.
Notorious old or new? Are you including Ubuntu or not? As Ubuntu has some weird issues sometimes that are kind of Ubuntu specific.
Look at bug trackers for long outstanding issues.
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New would be preferred. Would it be more appropriate to google issues related to each debian based operating system?
In terms of things beginners will find themselves needing to do (and perhaps won't be aware of the ease of fixing)
- Repairing Grub : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
- Running fsck to repair a file system
- Accessing a different tty console using ctrl alt F1-7
- Hardware not showing up when plugged in (run dmesg and lspci/lsusb
- Anything to do with graphics cards - perhaps you could explain how to install graphics drivers on certain distros.
GCSE computing involves linux now then? :O My A-level computing barely acknowledged it's existence.
Except for graphics cards I don't think any of your list are common Linux problems in the past year.. At least i've never had any issues except for graphics, which I just fixed.
A lot of issues are hardware dependant, in that I mean, crap hardware with no specifications and windows only software drivers.
Killer "gaming" NICs for example, were an issue until recently. AMD cards were a little bit of an issue until recently. Nvidia cards can be an issue if you try to screw around with the binary drivers.
Optimus/bumblebee is probably the issue right now, in that its not always simple to get running first time, and as far as I know, distros cont configure it by default?
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Thank you, and it isn't really. I just want to show some knowledge to the people marking my coursework in the desperation that it will get me a few more marks. It isn't acknowledged at all, the closest my class got to acknowledging it was my teacher giving a half arsed explanation of why the raspberry pi didn't need a heat sink.
Thank you, I shall include these issues in my code.