OK, Flash content (like Youtube) still runs like crap on my machine.
I’ve opened Package Manager, and searched for Flash and removed everything that looks like flash. Then I’ll reboot and see what happens when I try to open Flash content; I’ve probably changed it to some non-stand thing along the way and forgotten what I’ve done!
(Update) - I’m trying an install of the latest from Adobe (for 8.04+ it says - hope it works on 9.04?)
Found this blog post which goes through a bunch of things to do a bit of cleaning up of Ubuntu. I’m running through them now… We’ll see how it goes (it seems a little bit better after running the script from my previous post anyway, but maybe that’s the placebo effect at work…)
My Ubuntu install is starting to get a bit cluttered now. I’ve been running it since 8.04, and through various kernel updates and stuff. Firefox is getting a bit sluggish (dunno if that’s related), but when an install starts to get like this, I was a "burn the village" kind of guy who would just re-install Windows. Given that this whole Linux thing is a new paradigm, I thought that before I trash the thing I’ll have a look and see what else I can do.
Found this page: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/ubucleaner-simple-bash-script-to-keep-your-ubuntu-system-clean.html
It’s a bash script, with instructions, which apparently:
- Clean apt cache
- Remove config files left from uninstalled .deb packages(it happens if you don’t use the –purge switch with apt-get)
- Remove every kernel except the one you are using
- Empty the trashes of every user(including root)
I’ll give it a whirl, and see if it breaks anything!
(Update) - Well, my PC is still running. I’ll give it a reboot and see what happens. Looks like it cleared out a bunch of stuff.
