Mepis Maintenance
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As a new mepis user, are there any maintenance procedures/steps I should be doing periodicly like I did with windows?
What would they be and where do find them and how activate them?
Thank you
Liz: LOL
Posts: 2299
Now we know what the fishies are for.....
to add another:
answer six:
Only enable the repositories in Synaptic that have the word 'security' in them. This will give you security updates and leave the rest untouched....
Mind you, getting back to Windows.... How many stories do you know of people that installed the latest Service Pack and found themselves with applications not working anymore, or an OS that would fail to boot? Quite a few in my experience....
Newbie or not Newbie, there's always a question
Answer FIVE
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Thanks Liz for the morning amusement. Come to think of it, I haven't fed my virtual fish in quite a while 
Answer five: (You forgot this one carlops): Don't worry about it. Use the time that you would worry about having the latest "service pack", virus-signatures, defrag-o-rama, and the time that you would spend RUNNING these things, to learn something new.
I check for updates perhaps weekly. But if I'm in the midst of something important, I deal with that instead. The fixes that you will find when doing updates, are generally very minor ones. You have all these people out in the world volunteering their time to find "theoretical exploits" and tiny bugs in their applications. They are being fixed before any real exploit happens. Unlike in the Windows world, where bad things are being found after they have happened and then being patched.
So IMHO it's good to have things up-to-date, but look around your system(s) and learn how different things work (or don't work). You may find some thing that you really like, and learn how to use it well. Next thing you know, you'll be offering helpful advice to others who don't know as much as you do. That's how this community grows
Jon
I'm your worst nightmare: A Geek with an Attitude!
Proud Charter Member of
Da Mepis Posse 
No, no, no...
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...Everybody knows that, in order to properly take care of an Operating System installation, you have to spend money.
Lots and lots of money.
Run out and buy Speed Disk for Linux, and set the options as shown below:
My occupation?
Well, computer geek-stuff, mostly. I could tell you all about it; but, then I would have to delete you.
MMMMMM? but......
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I had heard that Linux ( Mepis) did not need to be defrayed, for it does this automaticly, as I use Mepis...was i lied to again!??
Fish????? What fish? Never heard of such a thing! More info please. thanks
Superdad
maintenance procedures
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answer one
as so many windows users want to have an answer to this question it was decided that it was important to check that the aquarium fish were swimming on the task bar, as they would clean up drives, remove malware and viruses
answer two
some choose to upgrade every package on their system
answer three
if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
according to this philosophy backup your important files and only upgrade packages because you want a new feature which is now available
answer four
read posts by our most paranoid poster, feheezeno. follow his/her example and check for rootkits, run firewall checks and all other potential cracker exploits.