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What is the magic sysreq combination?

In case anyone needed a better explanation of what REISUB stands for:

R.E.I.S.U.B.

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R.E.I.S.U.B. is a key sequence used on Linux systems to safely reboot a frozen or unresponsive computer. It is often referred to as the "magic SysRq key" (System Request key) and allows users to perform low-level commands to safely recover or restart the system.

The acronym R.E.I.S.U.B. stands for the specific sequence of commands you can execute to reboot the system safely, even if the system is otherwise unresponsive:

R - Raw mode (take control of the keyboard back from the X server). E - End all running processes cleanly (sends SIGTERM to all processes). I - Immediately kill all processes (sends SIGKILL to all processes). S - Sync the disk (flushes data to disk to prevent data loss). U - Unmount all file systems (remounts all filesystems as read-only). B - Boot (reboots the system).

How to Use R.E.I.S.U.B. Safely

Hold Alt and SysRq, and then press each letter separately in the order of R-E-I-S-U-B. However, often the SysRq key is a dual purpose key which needs another key to activate the secondary function. For example, on a Acer keyboard SysRq is a secondary function of the Delete key and the Fn key is used to select the secondary function. So on this keyboard it would require holding down the Alt + Fn + Delete to activate the SysRq function.

From http://pclosusers.com/wiki/index.php?title=REISUB_reboot_your_system>

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Google will develop Android OS entirely behind closed doors starting next week

It's just a slow locking down to stay in control... We just need to all shift to proper #Linux phones instead of linux-by-google. Could be nice to see some European moves there. There are plenty of good developers within the EU. The biggest issues would be in funding that development and to market it properly to artificially kickstart adoption of such a platform. There are already phones made in Europe; Fairphone is Dutch, I think?

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Presidential Memoranda to approve use of US Armed Forces against American protesters, labeling riots as an act of rebellion.

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Realistic

A new distro is built upon the concept of stackages, but dies silently not half a year later. Hardliners still use it for years after but nobody wants to maintain it.