Ubuntu's performance : how to speed up ?

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 03:54:38 +0200, Ari Torhamo
<ari.torhamo at saunalahti.fi> wrote:
> 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.


All true. It probably wasn't written to do backup just turned out
being very useful for that. And programmers aren't always the best at
selling their wares. Their time is better spent writing software.  ;-)

You could put it in and send it off to the maintainer?   :-)


> 
> 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
> 
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Regards,
Russ