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The Linux distillery Do you really need to install Intrepid Ibex (Ubuntu Linux 8.10)?
The Linux distillery Do you really need to install Intrepid Ibex (Ubuntu Linux 8.10)? | Do you really need to install Intrepid Ibex (Ubuntu Linux 8.10)? |
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| by David M Williams | |
| Monday, 03 November 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 7 The first thing I did was check the filesystem usage via the command df -k.
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Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 7913216 2706712 4807692 37% /
varrun 127840 100 127740 1% /var/run
varlock 127840 0 127840 0% /var/lock
udev 127840 44 127796 1% /dev
devshm 127840 12 127828 1% /dev/shm
lrm 127840 39780 88060 32% /lib/modules/2.6.24-21.generic/volatile
gvfs-fuse-daemon 7913216 2706712 4807692 37% /home/david/.gvfs
Intrepid Ibex shows the following mapping and usage:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 7850996 2278572 5173612 31% /
tmpfs 127324 0 127324 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 127324 100 127224 1% /var/run
varlock 127324 0 127324 0% /var/lock
udev 127324 2604 127720 1% /dev
tmpfs 127324 12 127312 1% /dev/shm
lrm 127324 2000 125324 2% /lib/modules/2.6.27-7.generic/volatile
There's three things which immediately jump out.
Firstly, Intrepid Ibex uses more disk space out-of-the-box.
Secondly, Hardy Heron's gvfs virtual filesystem does not appear to be running by default under Intrepid Ibex.
Thirdly, and most importantly, Hardy Heron is running Linux kernel 2.6.24-21 while Intrepid Ibex is running Linux kernel 2.6.27-7.
This last point is confirmed by the command uname -a which reports
Linux dmwvm 2.6.24-21-generic #1 SMP Tue Oct 21 23:43:45 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
for Hardy Heron, and the following for Intrepid Ibex:
Linux dmwvm 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Thu Oct 30 04:18:38 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
We thus have our first major point of differentiation between Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 8.10. The former does not include the latest Linux kernel and will not upgrade to it, via Update Manager at least - you can certainly build the kernel manually yourself - whereas this ships with the new Ubuntu incarnation.
Mind you, that version number change is so teensie tiny - from 2.6.24-21 to 2.6.27-7 ... are we talking about just an insignificant jump? Well, the answer is yes and no.
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