I am currently in that level of hell reserved for people who upgrade their GNU/Linux system too quickly. I have for some time now been happily using KDE 4 with the plasma desktop enjoying the cute little animations and eye candy, and learning to use the task-bar and widgets. Then my bliss was interrupted by a simple mistake. I decided to upgrade.
Read more »Tales From the Front: in Search of APT-GET UNDO
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apt-get comic fun
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"Do you Sandiago take this woman as your wife?" How to get married the apt-get way =p
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What is it with the “dist-upgrade” option of apt-get?
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There has always been a bit of confusion when people learn they can do a full upgrade of their distribution from the command line.
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New Apt-Fast Version, Now With Full Apt-Get Syntax Replacement [Ubuntu / Debian]
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Apt-Fast is a script which uses Axel, a command line application which accelerates HTTP/FTP downloads by using multiple sources for one file, and one can use it instead of "apt-get" on Debian based Linux distributions to get an amazing download speed improvement.
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Drastically Improve 'apt-get install' And 'upgrade' Speed [How-to]
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What if we could use a bash script to use "apt-get" with Axel (a command line application which accelerates HTTP/FTP downloads by using multiple sources for one file) so the "apt-get" download speed would increase dramatically? Well, you can, thanks to Matt Parnell who has created a bash script which does just that.
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How to limit the download speed of apt-get
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Learn how to limit the download speed of the APT package manager in Kubuntu, Ubuntu or any Debian-based Linux system.
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Bill Gates Would Like Apt-Get
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I think if Bill Gates met a Debian system and installed a program from the repositories, he might just go to his engineers and say, "Why can't it be like this?"
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Nexenta: Power of OpenSolaris with usability of Linux
While going through the backlog of blogs and news clambering around my newsfeed (I'm really worried how fast I became a workaholic, not having enough time to check the news, in just a few days time) I stumbled upon this post to the opensolaris-discuss mailing list two days ago: NexentaCore 2.0 Alpha1 "Hardy" Released.
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Aptitude vs Apt-Get
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Being an Ubuntu/Debian user (yes, I use and advocate both), I have fallen in love with the Advanced Packaging Tool, also known as apt.
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