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Bandwith optimization: squid, apt-cacher and jesred

  • Posted by lionel
  • April 28, 2008

At work, I now have around 50 desktops running Ubuntu and around 40 servers (including customers machines) also running Ubuntu. As you can imagine, when you have a security update of X, this represents a lot of bandwith usage! Not to speak about Hardy upgrade! We started to look at different solutions to optimize our [...]

Mandatory Ubuntu 8.04 LTS release post

  • Posted by lionel
  • April 28, 2008

I guess everybody has already read it, but Ubuntu has released a new release : 8.04 (8 for 2008, 4 for april). Note that this release is a LTS release (Ubuntu and Ubuntu Server only, Kubuntu and orther derivates are not ong term surpport release). As a result, you can upgrade from Ubuntu 7.10 (aka [...]