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Ubuntu Linux is a Debian derivative that aims to bring Linux mainstream. Questions on this site should generally refer to Ubuntu Server. Note that http://askubuntu.com is specifically dedicated to Ubuntu questions.

Ubuntu Linux is a Debian derivative that aims to bring Linux mainstream. Ubuntu is named after the South African philosophy of "humanity towards others," and the community observes a Code of Conduct in an effort to keep the project civil and appealing to novices.

Ubuntu versions are released every six months, following a YEAR.MONTH pattern. For example, the release codenamed Maverick was officially published October 10th 2010 as Ubuntu 10.10. Each release gets the software from the Debian Unstable repository, freezes it and fix and adapt it to Ubuntu philosophy.

A list of Ubuntu releases can be found here

Ubuntu Linux is backed by Canonical Ltd., a company founded and funded by South African Mark Shuttleworth, entrepreneur and Debian Developer. The focus of Canonical is to provide support and services to Ubuntu Linux Desktop and Server editions. Canonical employers sometimes develop to Ubuntu and Debian at the same time, that way keeping the contributions flowing back to Debian.

There is a Stack Exchange site dedicated to Ubuntu which is a good place to ask any Ubuntu-related questions.

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df says disk is full, but it is not

On a virtualized server running Ubuntu 10.04, df reports the following: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 7.4G 7.0G 0 100% / none 498M 160K 498M 1% /dev none …
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list all packages from a repository in ubuntu / debian

is there a command to see what packages are available from a certain ppa repository?
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How to fix PuTTY showing garbled characters?

Connecting from a Windows 7 PC via SSH to an Ubuntu server using PuTTY, I get some screen errors: I.e. it: "Double-draws" the selection inside Midnight Commander (MC). Other characters like line elements are drawn as the wrong characters (e.g. "â"…
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How can I edit the welcome message when ssh start?

I have a VPS for my website hosting. It is running a Ubuntu server. Every time I logged in my server by ssh, it displays a lengthy welcome message in my terminal. Linux node61.buyvm.net 2.6.18-pony6-3 #1 SMP Tue Mar 13 07:31:44 PDT 2012…
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dpkg-reconfigure: unable to re-open stdin: No file or directory

I am building a provisioning script for a ubuntu vagrant vm, on a ubuntu host, both 12.10 64bit When installing the following packages: sudo apt-get -y install php5-xsl graphviz php-pear unison I get the warning: dpkg-reconfigure: unable to re-open…
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GPG does not have enough entropy

I've got a ton of processes running in the background to try and get enough entropy, but I am still failing. **We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize…
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Why don't EC2 ubuntu images have swap?

I started a couple servers on EC2 and they don't have swap. Am I doing something wrong or is it that the machines just don't have any?
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Heartbleed: how to reliably and portably check the OpenSSL version?

I was looking at a reliable and portable way to check the OpenSSL version on GNU/Linux and other systems, so users can easily discover if they should upgrade their SSL because of the Heartbleed bug. I thought it would be easy, but I quickly ran into…
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Is there a proper way to clear logs?

I was wondering if there was a proper way to clear logs in general? I'm new to Ubuntu and I'm trying to set up Postfix. The log in question is /var/log/mail.log. I was wondering if there was a correct way to clear it, rather than me going in it and…
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How does Ubuntu keep track of the "System restart required" flag in motd?

I have a few Ubuntu servers (8.10, 9.10) that is set to automatically install security updates. Some times these updates requires a restart of the system, and this string is shown in motd: *** System restart required *** To get a notice about…
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Amazon Linux vs. Ubuntu for Amazon EC2

I'm setting up my first website on Amazon EC2, and I'm trying to decide which distro to use. I've used Redhat and CentOS in the past, but I have no bias towards any system, I just want to use whatever is best (I also have had partially-managed…
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Command line program to test DHCP service

Is there a simple ping-like command to test whether a DHCP service is running on a network? ...on Linux
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Ubuntu displays "There is 1 zombie process" upon login

This message appears when I login to my machine: There is 1 zombie process. What is it telling me? Is this anything I should worry about? If yes, then what should I do, and how?
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Automate the installation of postfix on Ubuntu

My system configuration script does an apt-get install -y postfix. Unfortunately the script is halted when the postfix installer displays a configuration screen. Is there a method to force postfix to use the defaults during installation so that an…
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Apache2 config variable is not defined

I installed apache2 on ubuntu 13.10. If I try to restart it using sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart I get this message: AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set the 'ServerName'…
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