Always nice to see positive stories about migrations from Windows to Linux. This time it’s the French police.
Read the full article on Ars Technica.
Posts Tagged ‘Ubuntu’
French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubuntu
Friday, March 13th, 2009NetworkManager 0.7.0 doesn’t manage my network
Thursday, October 30th, 2008After an upgrade of my desktop machine to Ubuntu 8.10 Beta the NetworkManager in GNOME makes a mess of my network settings (Say truely, which “manager” doesn’t make a mess out of the thing he/she needs to… manage :p).
Anyway… my setup is very simple. One ethernet connection with a static IP. Can’t be hard, don’t you think? Well, NetworkManager manages to redefine an “Auto eth0″ (DHCP enabled) connection every time it restart and just ignores the nice “Static eth0″ I’ve added.
The config of “Static eth0″ is not in /etc/network/interface, but added through the NetworkManager. You would think that does the trick, but it ain’t.
Also, when I delete “Auto eth0″ and I set the “System setting” flag on “Static eth0″, the flag is reseted as soon as I open the “Static eth0″ details again.
There is a bug filed at Launchpad.
And another.
And another.
Gotta take some time to start trying the proposed solutions in this threads… I’ll report back to you!
Ubuntu is slowing down
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds
Friday, October 3rd, 2008At the Linux Plumbers Conference, Arjan van de Ven, Linux developer at Intel and author of PowerTOP, and Auke Kok, another Linux developer at Intel’s Open Source Technology Center, demonstrated a Linux system booting in five seconds. The hardware was an Asus EEE PC, which has solid-state storage, and the two developers beat the five second mark with two software loads: one modified Fedora and one modified Moblin. They had to hold up the EEE PC for the audience, since the time required to finish booting was less than the time needed for the projector to sync.
Full article: http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/
