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Understanding the Ubuntu package repositories

During a thread about daylight savings confusion here in Sydney, Martin Barry asked the SLUG list why updates to Ubuntu packages go into a separate “updates” repository. John Ferlito suggested that I blog my answer…

I’ve never understood the ${ubuntu_release}-updates thing.
A separate repositry for security I understand due to the need to bypass mirror lag.
But anything worthy of going […]

Quiet Little Tributes

Once upon a time, a 4U server was donated to SLUG, for use as a web and list server. Though it wasn’t wildly powerful, it became known as “The Six Million Dollar” machine, because it had really earned its keep in a past life.
As soon as it was delivered, I used the Linuxcare Bootable Business Card […]

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