I always hate having to reboot a server. I can almost always avoid it. And that sounds like there’s some effort put into avoiding the reboot, and you might think that — if you’re used to a world of Windows servers. But it’s just not that hard to keep a server up.

This is pretty simple, just like in Windows. You could probably set it up quicker in Linux too. Too much clicking in windows.

I joke, I joke, but what will they do? Perhaps it will just mean an even cheaper price point as microsoft takes a loss like they did with the original Xbox. When netbooks first came out, they only ran Linux, and microsoft got scared and changed their mind about ditching XP. It’s too bad the consumer demand for XP over Vista never influenced their decision. That would be out of character for microsoft.

I’ll start with a small DSL linux image. It’s only 50 meg, but it’s a pretty useful little distribution.
ls -lh dsl-4.4.10.iso

-rw-r–r– 1 ninja ninja 50M 2009-08-28 13:11 dsl-4.4.10.iso

Mount the original iso image you want to modify
mount -t iso9660 dsl-4.4.10.iso /mnt/original -o loop
Copy the everything that you just mounted to another …

The small size of the eeePC makes it a handy little machine to take with you anywhere you go. There’s plenty of smart phones out there that are just as expensive or more and lack 90% of the features of a netbook. Sporting a freshly installed eeeBuntu, the netbook does the job of browsing and word processing with an Atom N280 chip, 1024×600 back-lit LCD, two gigs of memory, Ethernet, wifi, three USB ports and a VGA port. The latest version of eeeBuntu Linux was installed from a USB live image.

and then I ran across this post with palm and blackberry users whining about their crappy devices, praying for the next gen linux smartphone gods to save them.

This lets you access your Linux home directory and local DVD drive from Windows without having to set up additional cifs/nfs mounts. My home directory is an NFS mount from another server, so you should be able to access *any* file system that is available on your Linux side.

Most apps are just fine downloading through apt-get or yum and installing the latest binary version built for your flavour of Linux, but Wine isn’t one of those in the list for me. I suggest compiling Wine from source for everything you need, because the old version available in your package manager is probably old and you’re going to run into problems where the next step is to patch wine to get the latest version anyway, so just do it right now and be done with it.

Your first Linux command on a dual boot system should be: dd if=/dev/zero of=`fdisk -l | grep -m1 NTFS | awk ‘{print $1}’`

I read this article and my mind started churning away, thinking up new ideas for home networking appliances that I could create and sell, but then I ran into this part and started scratching my head because something just didn’t sound right immediately.