Every once in a while I stumble upon an amazing blog maintained by some amazing person writing very detailed and informative articles about something I’m not very familiar with. It usually turns out to be a university professor. Here’s two I stumbled upon recently: linguistics and biochemistry:
Happy Reading!
Three guides for Feisty, basically saying the same thing:
Installation on Edgy or Dapper is very similar. In my experience, the Intel graphics always work flawlessly, the nVidia driver will probably work (unless you have an older nVidia card), while the ATI driver fglrx driver is a crapshoot. The radeon Free driver works well, but only for a couple of specific ATI revisions.
There is a part of GNU libc called “nscd”, the name service caching daemon. It can cache username, group and host information as configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/nscd.conf. However, it really only caches responses to syscalls like getpwnam() or gethostbyname() (and others as listed in man nscd). This means that it can cache DNS information, but without knowing about DNS TTL values. It also will be bypassed for hostname lookups UNLESS gethostbyname() is called and that function is old and busted. The new hotness is getaddrinfo() as described:
http://people.redhat.com/drepper/userapi-ipv6.html
http://udrepper.livejournal.com/16116.html
Point is, you DO need a local caching DNS server to handle DNS requests, e.g. http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/08/02/local-dns-cache-for-faster-browsing/ and you can’t just use nscd as some of the comments suggest.
In this UbuntuForums thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=98233&page=9
Which way is easier? Read and find out!