Hai friends

In Windows world there is an option called "system restore".By using this we can get back to an old state where system was working fine.

Like that is there any option in linux,so that we can take linux to an old state and make it run effectively.

In linux there is certainly a way to revert back to an earlier version of a package you just installed and is causing a problem or is buggy. Is that what you mean?
jdk

Kind of but it also depends.

One might be to use a file system like Btrfs. It has a way to track changes on all files if you wish.


There is an app called timeshift that might work for you.


Use of your package management tool might help as well as using backups.

this what i do to roll my own system restore:this seems related:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...tu-4175452606/

Windows "System Restore" is made necessary by that Windows monstrosity, the Registry.

There is no equivalent to the Registry in Linux, so there is no need for a "System Restore."

Linux configuration data is stored in text files. In most Linux distros, you can fix problems using the file manager or the command line and a text editor. If worse comes to worse, you can boot into "maintenance" or "single user" mode and fix whatever it was that broke using a text editor. If worse comes to worst, you can boot to a Live CD of something (that's a CD that boots directly to an OS contained on the CD, not to the hdd), navigate to the broken text file, and fix it.

In addition, a wise user of any operating system makes regular backups of important data, in case worse comes to worst comes to disaster.

That is needed in Windows, where the OS just goes bonkers sometimes, or rogue applications can screw up the entire OS.

You don't see (or need) a system restore in Linux. Or in any other OS out there to the best of my knowledge, except Windows.

I have to add to this discussion that Win restore system Sucks i have 5 PCs and have one with Vista and when i do a restore system all it gives back is that crappy software that comes with OEM,so in linux it's much easy to fix system, for me at least.

I used to have some microvax systems that had the OS on a read only disk. It was the best way I've always thought to keep it secure and safe. Just hard to update.