How to list all currently installed packages in Debian / Ubuntu Linux
By Quintin Riis | Sep 24, 2008
I’m trying to clean out my horribly cluttered email inbox and bring order to my life, and I came across this old note I had emailed myself.
This is useful for whenever you need to reinstall a server or when you are upgrading your Ubuntu release to a newer version with a clean install.
To quickly and […]
Speed up application load time in Ubuntu Linux Hardy Heron using prelink: HOWTO and benchmarks
By Quintin Riis | Jun 15, 2008
I’ve used prelink in the past on Ubuntu in an attempt to speed up application loading, but I’ve never actually done any benchmarks to test the results. I decided today to run some simple benchmarks to gauge the performance increase of using prelink.
For readers too lazy to read through the entire article, I will […]
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