Friday, May 16th, 2008

Time	Event
5:16a	New weblog (update) I didn't feel like hosting my own weblog so I decided to change to Live Journal, which I've heard good things about. Wordpress is too Web 2.0 for me, so I think Live Journal will work. The problem is all these advertisements ... Damn, can't a site live without these intrusive things? The domain name I was using for the weblog, debianubuntu.org, is available, and I'm looking for opinions on what to do with it. Any thoughts? P.S.: Comments now open; Sorry, I'm still trying to figure all this out. (Comment on this)
9:25p	Debian Live USB Today I decided to install GNU/Linux on a pen drive, and after some looking around I decided to go with an easy solution. I didn't want to create anything new, just test drive a distribution running on a flash disk. After a couple of searches I found http://www.pendrivelinux.com/, which is a great site with tutorials on how to run several distributions on a pen drive, including, but no limited to, Debian and Ubuntu. Image running a full Ubuntu install on a Sony Micro Vault; it doesn't get better than that. After some digging around I decided to give their .IMG a try, which includes Debian with Gnome. No add-ons. Just the operating system with the desktop environment. After following the tutorial I had a bootable USB disk with 'live persistent' boot option, so that changes are saved. The next step is to remaster Ubuntu 8.04, remove and install some software, and have a custom 'remastered' Ubuntu version for the USB pen drive. (1 Comment | Comment on this)

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