On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Puneeth Chaganti <puncha...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > Some (simple) things like caching packages or concurrent installation > etc could be useful. Hopefully, someone can help. I've had fabulous experience with apt-cacher in the past to cache all downloaded packages onto one machine in the network so if another machine needs the same package subsequently, it fetches it from the local network and not from the internet. Its a really nice bonus of having everyone in the same network using the same OS, i think, and is really nice to be able to start getting packages withing seconds as long as someone on the network has downloaded them before.. This basically works by setting up apt-cacher on the server machine, and then pointing the sources.list files on each machine of the network to the server with apt-cacher. Then when you apt-get a package, it will first check the local server - if available, will download from there, if not, will fetch from the internet. And after that, if someone else is downloading the same package, it will be cached locally. After a little while, you find most packages already existing on the local network and installing anything anywhere becomes really quick.. I'm sure you'll find tons of instructions on how to setup apt-cacher - and feel free to ask me / the list if questions .. There's a lot more to migration, of course - but I think the focus tends to be often on "oh, i do such and such in Windows.. can I do the same in Ubuntu .. ?", and while its important to let people know that, yes, in most cases, they can -- I think its also important to highlight the great features of ubuntu that just don't exist in windows so that hopefully after the experience people will soon be saying "i do such and such in ubuntu... can i do the same in windows?" and the answer will be a resounding No :-) I don't have experience with concurrent network installs of ubuntu, but perhaps someone on the list can point to something, if that seems like a feasible / convenient way to go . Hope that helps - and all the best with the migration .. -Sanjay > > /punchagan > > -- > Puneeth Chaganti > http://punchagan.wordpress.com > > I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that > here and there > -- Richard P Feynman > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >
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