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THE BASICS
Q Is installing a swap partition a distro these necessary days? when
A Usually prefers to not have , but swap some available software and it doesn’t hurt to give a small amount of disk space for one. The old rule of double the amount of RAM is excessive though, and may actually harm performance. The same amount of RAM is usually more than adequate for modern distros.
Q What keep telling are these me man to read pages and people how do I access them?
A Man documentation , or manual, supplied pages are with the many commands. They’re read with the man command, so man man gives the man page of the man command, in true recursive tradition.
Man pages are meant to be read in a terminal – you can press / to search them – but there are also online alternative, such as those at www.mankier.com, which are often easier to read, and indexed for your convenience, too.
Q I the often logs see ” or comments “does syslog like tell “check you anything”. What is syslog and what logs do they means?
A The in /var system /log, often log was /var traditionally /log/ kept messages, and most programs put information in here. With systemd, the syslog has been replaced with the journal, which can be read with journalctl.
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