Kubuntu - Upkeek / day to day maintinance / tweaks

[smirnoff76]

Hi all wonder if you can help.
I am from a windows background and have been using Kubuntu for a couple of months now. In the M$ environment you have to do system maintenance such as disk defrag, flush temp files etc.
When using Kubuntu or any other linux alternative are there any maintenance tasks i can be / should be doing?

My system is running pretty smoothly anyway but are there any tweaks I can make that could improve system performance?

Thanks in advance!!

[Detonate]

Re: Kubuntu - Upkeek / day to day maintinance / tweaks

Linux stores files differently than windows, so there is no need to defrag. You can easily update the system each day, or whenever you want by entering:

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade && sudo aptitude dist-upgrade

in a terminal.

You should run:

sudo apt-get autoclean

every once in awhile to remove old stuff that is no longer needed.

[klerfayt]

Re: Kubuntu - Upkeek / day to day maintinance / tweaks

empty your trash bin weekly?

#edit: monthly?

[Qqmike]

Re: Kubuntu - Upkeek / day to day maintinance / tweaks

Not fully, exactly what I think you have in mind, but not totally unrelated, also ...

Privacy Cleanup 101
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde....msg115011#new
Reply #5: About kcontrol
(and maybe some other Replies under the topic--
please post Q's & issues back here in the regular forum--thx )


btw, you might check some of the other How-To's (under Documentation), esp some by Rog131 -- there may be some topics related to running a clean, tight ship.