Bug

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Submitting Bug Reports is explanation where and how to report the problems.

Software Bug

Wikipedia:

"A software bug is an error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in a computer program that prevents it from working as intended, or produces an incorrect result.

Bugs arise from mistakes and errors, made by people, in either a program's source code or its design. A program that contains a large number of bugs, and/or bugs that seriously interfere with its functionality, is said to be buggy. Reports about bugs in a program are referred to as bug reports, also called PRs (problem reports), trouble reports, CRs (change requests), and so forth."

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Hardware Bug

The same search for definition of hardware bug gives nothing, mostly because it is usually firmware bug and firmware is subcategory of software. Otherwise it would be the same definition just with word hardware instead of software.

See Also

• Frequently Asked Questions about reporting bugs.
• Bugs:Most Annoying Bugs List of bugs, by SUSE Linux version.
• Bugs:An application crashed Short about bugs, good and bad reports from the pen of guys that actually debug software.
• Submitting Bug Reports
• Bugzilla The software that is used to report bugs and track report status.

External Links

A definition of word bug can be found all over the Internet.

• Google result of search for define: bug Not all bugs are software bugs.
• Google for define: software bug Don't be surprised, it must be a good definition.
• Novell search What Novell has to say if you ask to search for "bug".
• Novell bug tracking tool is bugzilla.