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Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.
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Thanks.
I thought there could be some place in logs the system could write error messages to. Even hardware derived.
I've been going through /var/log/* and found thousand of scary messages, but can't really make sense of any of those.
Something like a hard drive could generate recognizable errors in the logs, but once you get out into the motherboard or power supply, there's simply not enough monitoring available to detect problems. You might be able to record the voltage output from the power supply rails, depending on your hardware, but that still might not tell you anything.