If your Linux desktop freezes, don't panic; there are ways to fix it. You can use keyboard shortcuts, virtual consoles, SSH, and other tricks. These tips can help avoid a hard reboot. I started using ...

Recently I heard a lecture on best admin practices and they said to set servers to auto update and auto reboot. The few servers I have have webserver, database and an app and reboot for kernel upgrade ...

It's mainly the fact that Windows files can't be overwritten while they're in use and so many programs 'update' core DLLs that you have to reboot to overwrite them. Linux allows you to delete open ...