Ubuntu's performance : how to speed up ?

[Ari Torhamo]

On pe, 2005-02-18 at 08:34 +0800, rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:
>On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:00:24 +1100, David <david at kenpro.com.au> wrote:
><snip>
>> I use rsync, and i'm surprised more people haven't mentioned this tool.
>> Really easy, can be done by cron. Is there some reason NOT to use it?
>
>Nup, rsync is your friend!  :)
>


I just did a search in Synaptic with the word "backup" and rsync didn't
come up in the results. I found out the reason to be that the word
backup doesn't occur even once in the description of the package. It's a
pitty that such a great tool for backing up data (as people say it is)
can go unnoticed for many, because such an obvious search term is
missing in the description.

I have noticed this same thing with some other packages too. The
description often tells too little about the package, or an important
word is missing. As a consequence, propably many people who could
benefit from a piece of software don't come across to it, even if they
search the package list with a relevant term.

Regards,

Ari