After reading about the blazing fast boot time of Ubuntu 9.04 on Matt Cutts’ blog, I decided it was worthwhile to go for the upgrade on my MSI Wind U100-432US. Before the upgrade I made sure to install bootchart and manually measure the boot time as well. Continue reading
The newest version of Ubuntu was released today, version 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope). Help ease the burden on Ubuntu’s servers and speed up your download by downloading your CD images over BitTorrent. Here are the links to the new torrents.
ubuntu-9.04-alternate-amd64.iso.torrent
ubuntu-9.04-alternate-i386.iso.torrent
ubuntu-9.04-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent
ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent
ubuntu-9.04-rc-server-amd64.iso.torrent
ubuntu-9.04-server-i386.iso.torrent
Sure, you can upgrade Ubuntu over the net, downloading the updates from Canonical’s servers. You can even do it over the net with apt-p2p, downloading the updates from other users. However, if you have more than one computer to upgrade, it may be nice to download the updates only once. For the following procedure you will need to download the image for the Ubuntu alternate install CD for your particular architecture. Continue reading
The official release of Ubuntu 9.04 – Jaunty Jackalope is fast approaching. When it’s released on April 23 you can be sure that Canonical’s servers will be getting slammed. That means the downloads are going to be slow. The good news is that they just let loose the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 9.04. There should be relatively few changes between this version and the one that will be released on the 23rd. If you update your system to this version now, you’ll only have a few updates to apply on the 23rd. Continue reading
Previously I’ve showed you how to set up a home network with Ubuntu. Once your network is set up, it’s easy to transfer files from one computer to another using Gnome’s standard file manager, Nautilus.
Nautilus has a built-in feature to support SFTP. SFTP is a secure file transfer protocol. It’s basically a combination of SSH (secure shell) and FTP (file transfer protocol). SFTP is a convenient way securely transfer files from one computer to another over the network. Continue reading