You can use apt-spy to get the fastest servers in your area. Just do: How to install apt-spy Code:…

You can use apt-spy to get the fastest servers in your area. Just do:

How to install apt-spy

Code:

apt-get update
apt-get install apt-spy
apt-spy update
apt-spy -d unstable -s GB

Where "unstable" above is the version of Debian you want. You can also use "testing" or "stable". "GB" is the two letter country code. In my case, I use "US". That will search all servers in that country and check their speed. Afterwards, apt-spy will create a new sources.list file using the fastest server it finds.

Rather than restricting it to one country, you can also serch by geographical area:
Code:

apt-spy -d unstable -a Europe

So that it will search all servers in Europe.

It takes a long time to benchmark all the servers, but it does find the fastest one. In my case, it sped up my average download speed by 3 times by switching servers. You can get more information from "man apt-spy" or "apt-spy –help". Good Luck!

Is this a correct sources.list for a debian upgrade from lenny to sid? Code: Select all: # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ – Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 2$ #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ – Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20$ deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sid …

 

You can use apt-spy to get the fastest servers in your area. Just do: How to install apt-spy Code:…

You can use apt-spy to get the fastest servers in your area. Just do:

How to install apt-spy

Code:

apt-get update
apt-get install apt-spy
apt-spy update
apt-spy -d unstable -s GB

Where "unstable" above is the version of Debian you want. You can also use "testing" or "stable". "GB" is the two letter country code. In my case, I use "US". That will search all servers in that country and check their speed. Afterwards, apt-spy will create a new sources.list file using the fastest server it finds.

Rather than restricting it to one country, you can also serch by geographical area:
Code:

apt-spy -d unstable -a Europe

So that it will search all servers in Europe.

It takes a long time to benchmark all the servers, but it does find the fastest one. In my case, it sped up my average download speed by 3 times by switching servers. You can get more information from "man apt-spy" or "apt-spy –help". Good Luck!

Is this a correct sources.list for a debian upgrade from lenny to sid? Code: Select all: # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ – Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 2$ #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ – Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20$ deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sid …

 

See how things work in Nepal. They use a solar panel to keep their server and analysis running during…

See how things work in Nepal.

They use a solar panel to keep their server and analysis running during times when there is no energy!

You can even see they using Ubuntu at 1:45. That's amazing! :D

Kathmandu is dusty, dirty and very loud. Power cuts are a daily problem and Internet connectivity is

 

What if I told you I found a way to kill the “Upstart” init in RHEL and CentOS 6 with just a bunch of…

What if I told you I found a way to kill the "Upstart" init in RHEL and CentOS 6 with just a bunch of "touch" commands? Yep, it's true. You can even reproduce it in qemu. In fact, I had to do it in there in order to get these screenshots.

Kill init by touching a bunch of files. init is a pretty big deal on a Linux box. If you manage to kill it, the machine panics. Everything stops, and if you’re lucky, it reboots by itself a few seconds or minutes later. Naturally, you’d like it to be stable and robust so that your machine …

 

What if I told you I found a way to kill the "Upstart" init in RHEL and CentOS 6 with just a bunch of…

What if I told you I found a way to kill the "Upstart" init in RHEL and CentOS 6 with just a bunch of "touch" commands? Yep, it's true. You can even reproduce it in qemu. In fact, I had to do it in there in order to get these screenshots.

Kill init by touching a bunch of files. init is a pretty big deal on a Linux box. If you manage to kill it, the machine panics. Everything stops, and if you’re lucky, it reboots by itself a few seconds or minutes later. Naturally, you’d like it to be stable and robust so that your machine …