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Re: [LUG] Wave, Ubu 9.10 and APT-Cacher-NG

 

On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 07:46 +0000, tom wrote:

> I mentioned Apt-Cacher-NG a while back and its been running happily on 
> my Viglen box and in upgrading that and the other three machines saved 
> some 1.5GByte in downloading packages. If you have more than one machine 
> its worth setting it up just to see how fast an upgrade is when you're 
> getting the packages from a machine on the same network. Well worth 
> doing in an office environment too.

That sounds a good tip, my desktop and two netbooks here already on
Ubuntu, and an Acer Revo at Christmas for the kids will be also Ubuntu,
so that certainly sounds something I should set up.

-- 
John Williams
My linux blog of notes and guides
http://subbass.blogspot.com/

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