I couldn’t stand using fluxbuntu any longer as my server’s linux distro. Thankfully, I got rid of it, but sadly I lost a lot of data in the transitioning process. I was positive that I saved it, but apparently not. Oh well, I have a fresh start and the best part is that this time I set it up all on my own. I actually needed Tom’s help when it came to phpmyadmin though. I kept trying to make it way harder than it is. So, gOS is my new distro! And I’m looking forward to what I can do this year with my box.

If you are looking to import pictures from your digital camera and you are a Linux user, then you should probably apt-get gphoto2. You know how easy it was to configure? This easy… sudo apt-get install gphoto2 (Plug camera in. Turn on camera. Computer asked to import images. Click yes.) Done.  Go here to find out more about importing images through Linux.

I started an interesting little project the other day. It was based off of me trying to make sure that the computer parts that Tom gave me were functional. He gave me a tower with a motherboard, cpu, and power supply. He also gave me a cd-rom, but I had no IDE cable to plug into the motherboard. If I would have had an IDE cable I would have ran Ubuntu live-cd. So, instead I decided to put Puppy Linux on my thumb drive and boot the computer in Linux off of a USB. It took me a little bit to get it down to an exact science, mainly because the Puppy Linux version 3.00 Seamonkey doesn’t work with my laptop. But, I worked my way around it and followed this guide.  If you have an extra USB drive to spare and you want to attempt it go there and try it out. Now, I have a portable OS that saves information directly to the USB. Very neat and very fun.

Very cool! Puppy Linux is a bare bone type of Linux distro when Ubuntu, Kubuntu, or Fedora just won’t work due to hardware restrictions. Puppy 3.00 recently was added and distributed on 10/2/2007. 3.00 is a slackware 12 compatible distribution that has a retro kernel version (2.6.18.1) in addition to the latest 2.6.21.7 Linux kernel. 3.00’s ISO sits at a 97mb download where as the bare bone version of Puppy comes to a grand total of an astounding 45mb ISO. Excellent for placing on a thumb drive!