A friend of mine swears to Debian. While I’m a dedicated Arch Linux enthusiast, we can both agree on the fact that Ubuntu has some issues. Recently, he brought some interesting stuff to my attention when playing around with local repo mirrors for Debian and Ubuntu and I feel like his thoughts deserve some exposure, so here it is.
Ubuntu 12.04 was released a little while back. Being a long time user, I was eager to give the new version a spin, even though I have jumped over to OpenSUSE on a few systems. Much to my surprise, 12.04 is basically unusable for me. I have been trying to search for solutions, but to no avail. Is it just me?
Many of you are probably familiar with the top command which gives you a great overview of the CPU usage. However, there is a similar tool that does for your bandwidth what top does for the CPU. Its called iftop and its quite nifty! It listens to network traffic on a …
The new version of Ubuntu is finally here. Version 12.04, codenamed Precise Pangolin, brings with it a lot of new clever features. I dont think further introduction is necessary. So go and get it right now, then you can enjoy reading about whats new while it downloads. Let us know how …