what about maintenance?
 

does linux clean up hard disk form unnecessary and temp files regularly itself or do i have to do it myself?
if i have to, then how to do it?

Yes it is done automatically on a regular basis and unlike M$ you don't have to do anything.

Depends on the distro, and how it's set-up.

Some distros will clean /tmp at shutdown,
others will clean /tmp and some lock-files in
/var at startup, others won't do either :}

No idea what fedora does, look through the
rc.d directory tree and at /etc/inittab for more
information.


Cheers,
Tink

i have fedora, but considering move to debian instead.

does fedora empty ./trash regurarly as well?

Is there anyway to look at a particular config file and tell?