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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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Best location to keep SSL certificates and private keys on Ubuntu servers?

On Ubuntu, it looks like the best place for a private key used to sign a certificate (for use by nginx) is in /etc/ssl/private/ This answer adds that the certificate should go in /etc/ssl/certs/ but that seems like an unsafe place. Do .crt files…
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Change default directory when I SSH to server

I was wondering if there is a way to change the default directory that I get put into after I SSH into my Ubuntu server. 99% of the time when I'm logging into my server, it is to access files within a specific directory: /var/www/websites Is there…
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What is the debian-sys-maint MySQL user (and more)?

I have been bitten several times by the 'debian-sys-maint' user that is installed by default on the mysql-server packages installed from the Ubuntu repositories. Generally what happens is I pull a fresh copy of our production database (which is not…
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Why is ssh agent forwarding not working?

In my own computer, running MacOSX, I have this in ~/.ssh/config Host * ForwardAgent yes Host b1 ForwardAgent yes b1 is a virtual machine running Ubuntu 12.04. I ssh to it like this: ssh pupeno@b1 and I get logged in without being asked for a…
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What is the difference between PV and HVM virtualization types in ec2?

AWS EC2 offers two types of virtualization of Ubuntu Linux EC2 machines - PV and HVM. PV: HVM: What is the difference between these types?
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Install openssl-dev on Ubuntu server

In order to compile NGinx in need to install openssl and openssl-dev (I'am following a book guide). So i'am doing this : sudo apt-get install openssl openssl-dev But i get an error telling me that it's impossible to find openssl-dev. Also after…
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How to properly set permissions for NFS folder? Permission denied on mounting end.

I'm trying to connect to an NFS folder on my dev server. The owner of the folder on the dev server is darren and group darren. When I export and mount it to my Mac using the Disk Utility it mounts, but then when I try to open the folder is says I do…
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Docker containers can't resolve DNS on Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop Host

I'm running into a problem with my Docker containers on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Docker worked fine for two days, and then suddenly I lost all network connectivity inside my containers. The error output below initially lead me to believe it was because…
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How should an IT department choose a standard Linux distribution?

There is a lot of community feeling about what Linux distributions are appropriate for production server environments and which aren't, however, a lot of this feeling seems religiously based, and seldom presented with supporting evidence. Assuming…
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Why does htop have three load averages?

On htop, it shows three load averages, one bold, one normal, one red. What do they signify?
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How can I monitor what logrotate is doing?

How can I monitor what logrotate is doing in Ubuntu? Can the activity of logrotate be monitored?
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apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName

I keep getting this warning when I (re)start Apache. * Restarting web server apache2 apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName ... waiting apache2: Could not reliably determine…
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What does -qq argument for apt-get mean?

I just received a Vagrantfile and post install bash script. The vagrantfile downloads standard Ubuntu from Ubuntu Cloud but I found something in the bash script. Few lines of script reads as: apt-get update -qq > /dev/null apt-get -qq -y install…
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Block range of IP Addresses

I am getting bombarded with attempted hacks from China all with similar IPs. How would I block the IP range with something like 116.10.191.* etc. I am running Ubuntu Server 13.10. The current line I am using is: sudo /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -s…
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How to force MySQL to connect by TCP instead of a Unix socket?

I would like to analyze mysql traffic. Right now, all mysql requests are sent to the MySQL unix socket: unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 3734388 15304/mysqld /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock I'm trying to disable that socket to…
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