Reload is the process refreshing the information of download sources in an Ubuntu system. If you observe, you will find that actually Ubuntu downloads several dozen megabytes of data when reloading and in fact you can reduce up to half size. This article supplies you information to tinker with that with sources.list configuration and APT command. You will see best of this in an experiment-dedicated system if you have. Lastly, I practiced this on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa and you can practice this also on other versions. Enjoy tinkering!

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VLC is one of many successful open source application out there. It supports wide range audio and video formats, and it completely free. VLC is available by default on Ubuntu's official repository, so you can install it easily from Package Manager. Unfortunately, sometimes there is a delay between VLC released by the author and VLC which is available on Ubuntu repository. Many of us like the latest version of application. Installing the latest version of software, letting us have more features, enhancements, and less bugs. Today, I'd like to show you how to get the latest version of VLC for Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, Ubuntu 12.10, and Ubuntu 12.04.

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the third maintenance release of Linux Kernel 3.8 series. He also said that all users of the 3.8 kernel series must upgrade to this release. You can read the official announcement here. So, if you are using Linux Kernel 3.8 series, you are urged to upgrade as soon as possible. Linux kernel 3.8.3 come with lots of ARM improvements, especially for the Kirkwood processors, various Btrfs and EXT4 fixes, and driver updates for wireless, i915, RAID, SCSI, USB, etc.

One of most important things to do with operating system and any major of software is keeping it up-to-date to the latest feature to make sure we have the latest feature, improvements, bug fixes, and more! System update can be very crucial if it is related with security stuff. Imagine if there is a security hole in an operating system so the wrong hand can access your files, password, and any secret stuff on your computer. Although Ubuntu which is one of many Linux distributions is known as a secure operating system, you should not underestimate a system update, especially an update with related to security stuff. In Ubuntu, you can do a security update via command line or any GUI which provides an easy user interface to perform a system update, but you should do that manually so it can be a troublesome activity. So, today I'd like to share a simple trick so you can perform security update automatically, it also called "unattended upgrade".

Due to a lot of page views on my past posts about the latest Linux Kernel releases, I decided to keep you up to date with the latest version of Linux Kernel which is available to install on Ubuntu. Today, I'd like to share the download link of Linux Kernel 3.7.1 deb packages, so you can install it easily on your Ubuntu system. Please note that the latest kernel which is not officially released by Ubuntu may break your system, so please don't install it on production system :)

Just a quick update for today! The codename for upcoming Ubuntu 13.04 has been announced by Mark Shuttleworth: "Raring Ringtail".

The Ubuntu's default web browser, Mozilla Firefox, hits 15th version. There are many changes and improvements in this release.

Good news for MATE Desktop Environment fans. MATE 1.4 has been released and ready to install on Ubuntu. In this release, MATE comes with numerous bug fixes, caja-dropbox package so you can integrate Dropbox in Caja file manager easily, added new themes, and also file sharing now available via bluetooth.

Linus Torvalds released the 3.5-rc3 and said that there's fewer commits. Below are some changes of Linux Kernel 3.5:

• A fair amount of Intel graphics driver changes.
• The AST KMS driver was merged for the ASpeed graphics hardware plus another KMS driver.
• There's now QEMU KMS driver support for the virtual Cirrus hardware.
• Many other open-source graphics driver changes.
• DMA-BUF PRIME support was merged. DMA-BUF itself also received MMAP/VMAP support.
• There's finally audio support for the Creative Sound Core3D sound cards that succeed the Sound Blaster X-Fi. There's also support for the Xonar DGX sound card and other audio updates.
• Better input support for the kernel drivers.
• A multitude of ARM device improvements.
• CRC32 meta-data support for EXT4.
• Some technical Btrfs file-system improvements.