Hi all,


I recently read a windows tip which read as follows:-

windows allots 20% of the bandwidth by default for various services like Windows update , spyware checks etc. we can get hold of this bandwith by changing the values of limit reservable bandwidth under QOS packet scheduler

now my questions are as follows:-

1) how to limit the bandwidth usage used by ubuntu updates in the above lines ?

You could probably use a software firewall on Ubuntu to do it, but then the downside is that if you run out of disk space and have to remove your software firewall you're toast.

And just why do you have Ubuntu 10.04 instead of 10.10? Isn't it good to be up-to-date?

In my experience LTS versions are more stable when compared to the current release

and i am following the advice , given here http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...sagree-823527/as follows:-

Not very long ago I was saying that Ubuntu was good for the larger Linux community because it "tamed wild Debian" and granted access to the awesomeness of Debian Linux for us ordinary non-geeky end-users.

But since I started with Ubuntu, every release seems to just get buggier and buggier in their quest to be "all things to all users" (admittedly a worthy goal, just perhaps not achievable yet). It's plagued with experimental - even beta - software that is troublesome for even experienced Linux users. Using newbies as unwitting beta-testers unawares is just unforgivable. And I think part of the reason is that Canonical insists on a rigid release schedule, so stuff kinda gets rushed to release ready or not.

Ubuntu is probably okay for newbies if they stay "one release behind" the most current one, since it takes several months of updates and stuff to make a release truly stable enough for ordinary desktop use by ordinary computer users. The only other li'l piece of advice I would have for Ubuntu users would be to set your Update Manager to accept only security updates! Ignore the "recommended" updates. There's a zillion "b0rked after update" threads in the Ubuntu Forums (here and at their own site) that testify to the truth of my words.

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I agree sulekha,

After trialling several versions of Ubuntu I've decided to stick with the LTS versions. I'm running 10.04 now quite happily. I don't want the next 'bleeding edge' version, thanks. I keep it up to date and I haven't had any problems (so far) with the recommended updates, although I quite often decline a recommended update for a while (just to see if there were any problems).