Ubuntu 9.04 bug with networking directory creation « RimuHosting Blog. I ran ifup and got the following errors root@charon ~ # ifup eth0 ifup: failed to open statefile /var/run/network/ifstate: No such file or directory … so i checked and /var/run/network did not exist… This link had a bit more technical information. They said look [More]

To upgrade in place for releases that are no longer officially supported please see… http://www.nzlinux.com/2009/06/upgrading-older-releases-of-ubuntu-when-support-ends/ Depending on the installation it might be substantially faster to do a clean reinstall and migrate your content from backups. YMMV. If you are already on one of the LTS [More]

Canonical and analyst firm RedMonk released findings of a survey sent to thousands of Ubuntu Server users. It was developed with the Ubuntu community and was completed by almost 7,000 respondents. The companies says the survey confirmed that Ubuntu was being widely used in the most common workloads (web, print, file, database and mail servers) [More]