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Hey,
Since I've moved to Ubuntu 9.10, I never needed that other OS.
The architecture and layout is radically different, but under the hood, it performs.
(I like this system and its fast, but it collects junkfiles too. And that is something that nobody talks about)
I'm gonna show some things that you can do to make it faster and rid it from its junk.
This is my setup,
Atom 330 CPU / 500GB HDD / 2GB RAM / ION GPU
Since I've moved to Ubuntu 9.10, I never needed that other OS.
The architecture and layout is radically different, but under the hood, it performs.
(I like this system and its fast, but it collects junkfiles too. And that is something that nobody talks about)
I'm gonna show some things that you can do to make it faster and rid it from its junk.
This is my setup,
Atom 330 CPU / 500GB HDD / 2GB RAM / ION GPU
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Sounds scary, right?
Well this is your biggest friend.
I'm going to teach you how to manually remove residing updates AKA junk.
Go to APLICATIONS > ACCESSOIRES > TERMINAL
This opens a terminal as pictured
Then type of copy and paste:
sudo apt-get autoclean
press Enter
The terminal will now ask for your password, type it in and press Enter again.
(Don't worry if you don't see it, just type and press Enter)
After a few seconds the terminal will commence cleaning, see my photo for the result.
After a big update this will save you 10 ~ 250 MB of wasted space.
Well this is your biggest friend.
I'm going to teach you how to manually remove residing updates AKA junk.
Go to APLICATIONS > ACCESSOIRES > TERMINAL
This opens a terminal as pictured
Then type of copy and paste:
sudo apt-get autoclean
press Enter
The terminal will now ask for your password, type it in and press Enter again.
(Don't worry if you don't see it, just type and press Enter)
After a few seconds the terminal will commence cleaning, see my photo for the result.
After a big update this will save you 10 ~ 250 MB of wasted space.
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For additional cleaning, go to:
System > Administration > Computer Janitor
And for still further cleaning, install the free program, Ubuntu Tweak. It gets rid of lots of unnecessary junk.
SOURCE: beginlinux.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/ubuntu-9-04-cleanup-with-computer-janitor/
Computer Janitor can make false positives about files that aren't needed.
So it deletes files that are essential, making Ubuntu less stable or even unstable.
Some .deb files are rarely needed, but not worthy of deleting !
So read it. ;)
I'll change it :)