[CLUE-Tech] discovery

[Roger Frank]

There are lots of things I like about Linux.  Now that I'm
upgrading the machines at school, with Debian it's nice to
just type `apt-get upgrade` and move one.  But the bandwidth
isn't there since that's now a 300MB update and there are
30 machines.  That's when I discovered www.apt-cacher.org
and I am very impressed.  One *one* machine, I do 
`apt-get install apt-cached` and on the other machines I
edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to that machine by
inserting "local-machine-name/apt-cached" in the path.  That's all
there is to it.  Only once will the files be snarfed from
the Debian archives.  Every subsequent apt-get upgrade uses the
local files as fast as they can be delievered by the 
local network.  So here it is Saturday noon and I'm
already home after what I thought would be a long day in
the Linux lab at school.

Linux is /nev/dull that's for sure.

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Roger Frank