“At one stage of our Linux adventure we have all come across
this situation. Here you are happily exploring and tweaking your
system when all of a sudden it doesn’t start any more. There are
many things that could have been done from changing screen
resolutions to a script or runlevel gone bad.“If you are from a windows background the most common thing you
have done is to format and re-install from scratch. Those in the
know however know that re-installing linux from scratch is the
absolutely last ditch effort and should only be tried if all other
options have been tried and failed…”
Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.
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