Something the Ubuntu Server Team have been working on, is getting some useful little tips into the Ubuntu Server. We all have little gems that we use, making daily server administration easier. This is your chance to help, and share your wisdom with everyone else.

A tip can be something like:
“Ubuntu Server Tip: Browse the command line history with ctrl-r and then type a few characters that you know are part of the command you are looking for.”

The current roadmap suggests a tip like the above will be displayed after login, via motd (message of the day).

How can you help?
Currently there is a shortage of tips, and translations of these into other languages. I think we can easily get in excess of 500 soon.

So if you have a little gem of wisdom that is reasonably short, raise a bug and include a short description as a title, and include the tip as the main description. If it is accepted, it will be included.

Translations are another big part of this project, it’s only fair that people see these nuggets in their native language – so if you are capable, we would really appreciate help translating into different languages. Launchpad makes this area very easy to contribute to.

Once we have a few more tips, I’ll throw out a call for testing, so this is another area you can help.

Thanks for your help.

EDIT: Had some fantastic suggestions so far, but if the length could be kept concise (guide ~160 characters), it would be great

August 13th, 2009 | All, Blogroll, hantslug, lugradio, ubuntu, ubuntu-uk