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Create your UNE flash drive

After the ISO file has finished downloading you will have to create a bootable flash drive. Use the link below to find detailed instructions.

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Install UNE on your netbook

When the flash drive is ready, simply put it in your USB slot, restart your computer and follow the instructions that will appear on your screen. Don't forget that you can make more copies and pass the flash drive to as many people as you like.

Thanks for downloading. Have fun using Ubuntu Netbook Edition!

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Ok, I was tasked with upgrading a tired old Acer Aspire One netbook. The thing is going on 5 years I've been told. I came with Windows XP installed and has had multiple owners. It's a question whether it will boot up sometimes, and when it does, your lucky if you can surf the web with it... not very net-bookie.

SO! I plut in 1Gig of Ram hoping that would help it out (512 standard) and it made it boot reliably, but it was still very slow in the XP interface.
I asked my "client" if they minded linux. I explained that they wouldn't be able to just download "normal" programs and what not. "That's ok, I'd be happy if I was just able to check my e-mail with it and surf the web."

So I had heard recently about Ubuntu for Netbooks. I knew there was ubuntu light and what not, but I had a feeling this new "remix" would be a super easy to use version of it.

I grabbed a 2gb flash drive and made a boot disk and started it up on the net book. From the usb drive it took seconds to load and was snappy even though running through usb. I was floored. The interface was clean, sophisticated, and easy to use. Not only that but it's specifically designed for atom intel CPU's which this old Dinosaur of a netbook surprisingly sports.

So I chose to install it. It asked me what language I would like to speak (Russian?... no) And what sort of keyboard I wanted... 'MERICAN! Then asked me if I wanted to keep Windows on there as well as install Ubuntu... OVERWRITE!

The installer worked in the background for about 15-20 minutes while I tooled around in the intriguing new interface. I rebooted the device and on firstboot it took several seconds to load; second boot took mere seconds to load.

The performance gains over XP on a netbook were phenomenal and having an open source toolset like F-Spot, Open Office, and Firefox pre-installed is great.

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Thumbdrive OS's - or, Taking your security OS with you

Ok, so lately I've been wanting to have a Operating System that I could boot from a USB thumb Drive.

I'm a geek right?

So Why WOULDN'T I want hang an entire operating system on a lanyard around my neck? The Nerd factor is OFF THE CHAIN! *Cue "I'm so hood remix"*

Yeah, UH!

(It works best to get your swagger on and read this next section with the music above bumpin)

I've got tha bling upon my neck! Chain swung low to hit tha deck! Yeah, my life is so hi-tech!

myDSL is the weapon of choice! Shut up man, don' wanna hear ya voice.

Free BSD? Oh Please for sheeze; that **** is just another freebie!

So what's the difference might you ask? Looks like I'm uh HaftaTakeYouToTask


I CAN TRANSPORT ALL MY FILES AND GET ROOT ACCESS ALL THE WHILES!

YEAH!

Ok, thats enough.

So I was thinking, if I could boot my operating system off of a thumbdrive, I could have complete admin privileges no matter who's computer I was on, and I could take all my preference's and files with me.

Plus, If I wanted to, I could use it to do computer maintenance when the host computer is Jacked up beyond belief.


Ok, so whats the deal? Sounds cool right? Basically, I have set up my usb thumb drive ( you can do an entire USB HD if you want) to run a virtual Operating System on top of the Native OS on a computer.
Now, the setup I used is only available for Windows, but I know there are other options for you Mac's and Linux people out there. In fact, the virtual OS that you'll be running is a VERY stripped down Linux 2.4 kernel.
In fact, it only comes to 50mb when all is said and done.

Interested? Go to www.DamnSmallLinux.com and start reading up. Basically you just need to download and unzip the Virtual DSL onto your thumbdrive and double click the appropriate .dll extension.
If you want your myDSL OS to remember all your settings, you're going to want to set up a virtual HD on your thumbdrive as well. DON'T freak out! It's fairly straight forward and all the utilities and instructions are included.

ALSO, if you're into Security, XeroBank is coming out with a similar product in the next couple weeks. They do have a beta out, but I was never able to get it to work.

What kind of set-ups do you guys have? Does anyone have a Thumbdrive OS that they can either boot off of and/or run in emulation? I think that would be great to have a persistant OS that could boot or run emulated.

Nintendo NES PC Tutorial

Old School Systems › News › Original NES PC Tutorial
and
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/nespc/

Well, I think this is just about the coolest thing ever. I loved the NES but it's a hassle to have lying around when I could just use an emulator.

So why not just use the Nintendo NES box to be my computer and I could then run and emulator on it.

I love the project at http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/nespc/ the most because it fits the whole thing inside the case without having stuff dangling out.
What I would like to do, is have one of these running Ubuntu with full capabilities such as USB and Blue Tooth. I'd want it to be able to handle regular computing Tasks with a little emulation gaming on the side.

-Josh