This article is intended for people who have some computer expertise, even if it's Windows-only. At a minimum, you should be comfortable with the MS-DOS command line in Windows and have done a bit of Windows Registry editing to give you some experience with configuration files.

This article is largely specific to Debian and it's derivative distributions (usually called "distros") like Ubuntu, though the principles should serve users of RPM-based distros (i.e., Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, openSUSE, or SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop/Server).

This article is not a full treatment of Linux troubleshooting. A full treatment of Linux troubleshooting would be a rather long book, even if it were distro-specific.

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