[Cialug] The kernel and my hard drive

[Jeffrey C. Ollie]

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 23:51 -0600, Jeff wrote:
>
> I am curious as to how important it is to keep up the kernel. Running
> Ubuntu 6.10, it has a different kernel build than what is available now.
> When the new version of Ubuntu, 7.04, comes out, is it to my benefit to
> upgrade to that, or is staying with the 6.10 advantageous for right now.

It's very important to keep up with the updates for your system.  I
don't know Ubuntu, but unless you like living on the edge I'd stay away
from running the new release for a few weeks while the kinks get worked
out by others.

> And my hard drive. Is there a utility like disk clean-up or defrag for
> Linux or just how does that work.

No, Linux doesn't need disk defragmentation.

Jeff

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