The best Ubuntu 11.04 tip : Use gnome classic desktop with gnome-do, docky! About two weeks ago I wrote an article about how I kinda liked Unity and the new Ubuntu 11.04 but I didn’t considered it complete, finished and ready to be released on 28 of April.
Today Natty narwhal is swimming with the sharks with it’s Unity thingy. After upgrading to 11.04 on my home pc (a few days ago) and using the RC on my work computer for a few weeks prior to the public release I can say I had enough of unity for now. It’s not complete. This is the tag line. It doesn’t feel finished. Canonical expects to attract new users with this new version but I think it would eventually lose more of their existing user base. Even though Unity might be enjoyable and easy to use for newcomers I think it’s quite annoying for old users. I don’t understand some design decisions on Unity UI’s… like the top toolbar menu that has been removed from the application window and inserted into the top desktop menu. You can already see a lot of posts on blogs, forums complaining about unity. 8 Ways to Maintain a Clean, Lean Ubuntu Machine.
Once in a while, you may want to do some maintenance on your Ubuntu machine and clean up unnecessary files that are chunking up large storage space in your hard disk.
Here are 8 ways that you can use to clean up your Ubuntu: 1) Analyze your disk usage The first thing that you need to do is to find out which files are consuming the large bulk of the storage space in your hard disk. Go to Applications->Accessories->Disk Usage Analyzer and click on the Scan Filesystem at the top to get it to analyze your disk usage pattern. You will be able to see instantly which files/folders are taking up the bulk. Once you have determined the files that are taking up large storage space, you can do the following: decide if you have any use of the files. 2) Clear duplicate files and broken symlinks Over the time, you could have dozen copy of the same file lying in different corners of your system.
Install fslint, or via the terminal: sudo apt-get install fslint Go to Applications-> System Tools-> FSlint. 550962 in resolvconf (Ubuntu): “resolvconf will not update /etc/resolv.conf -> /etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.conf on startup” Binary package hint: resolvconf I installed resolveconf and i have setup my /etc/network/interfaces manually: root@server:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them.
For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.10.101 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.10.0 broadcast 192.168.10.255 gateway 192.168.10.100 # Using OpenDNS name servers dns-nameservers 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 dns-search wireless.dom auto eth1 iface eth1 inet static address 10.10.0.1 netmask 255.255.0.0 network 10.10.0.0 broadcast 10.10.255.255 On startup resolvconf ignores the dns-* entries and is empty.
I have temporarily solved the problem by putting "invoke-rc.d networking restart" in /etc/rc.local but this souldn't happen in the first place! 524439 in console-setup (Ubuntu Lucid): “needs porting to udev/upstart”