apt-cacher

[BigAl-sa]

Anyone using apt-cacher for updating multiple machines on their home network? Looks like a very useful bit of software.

 

[sjm]

Using it, but not at home.

Very useful.

 

[BigAl-sa]

Sorry to wake up this old thread, but I've finally set up apt-cacher-ng on my home network and it really does make updating *much* quicker across multiple machines.

Really simple to set up as well.

 

[spiderz]

i prefer apt-mirror ...

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

I use apt-cacher at home (and we use it at work). Makes a big difference. Ant the best is setting the shaping.

 

[hawker]

If only more PC's in my home used Ubuntu...

 

[BigAl-sa]

i prefer apt-mirror ...

apt-mirror can only work if you can plug your drive directly into a local mirror (such as one of the varsities) fairly regularly. Otherwise you'll be wasting that uncapped bandwidth

 

[BigAl-sa]

If only more PC's in my home used Ubuntu...

work on it - both cb and I have our missusses running on various linux versions!

 

[ironstone]

good to hear the positivity on cacher. looking at implementing at work soon.
[also seeing the +'s on committing to a single and stop distro hopping. for the now, anyhow.] but, there's so much choice !

 

[hawker]

work on it - both cb and I have our missusses running on various linux versions!

I'll try work on it !

 

[BigAl-sa]

There's just been an update to chrome, and I see google didn't put their repository in sources.list, but rather in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list

 

[hawker]

I'm currently installing Linux on my sisters PC, since XP has bombed out and refuses to work.

I've setup apt-cacher, waiting for her PC to finish installing and then it's all systems go!