el rinconcito

I've done this before, run The Puppy on the netbook. It amazes me how fast it boots from a usb drive and how fine it runs. The netbook comes with Ubuntu Netbook Remix installed, but it's always more fun to run other things just for the hell of it.

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Image #1: Screenshot of JVM window manager. Pretty! Wallpaper from visualparadox.com. Go ahead, click it, inspect it closely! Breathe deeply.



Image #2: Our favorite browser, Opera, on the netbook running the Puppy:



Image #3: The Puppy lives here on a usb flash drive. Take a cheap-o flash drive, make it bootable, install the Puppy to it, and boot 'er up! Your session will get saved back to the usb drive each time, never touching the netbook hard drive. The flash drive can be formatted as "vfat", or why not be groovy and go for "ext3" or something.



Image #4: The Sylvania Meso is Ubuntu certified and has Intel Atom inside.



Image #5: Pretty, pretty Puppy Linux and Sylvania Meso. Looks even better in person.



Image #6: Parting screenshot. Go ahead, grope it, fondle it, feel the joy!

I'm waiting in the lobby of the Microtel for two hours until my coworker gets done and comes back for me, then I can drive home. I'm playing online with my cute little netbook on the hotel wifi.

I actually got a better rate than the posted $59.95 single. Reserving online with a AAA (American Automobile Association) discount got me $53.86 a night, plus taxes.

I'm still having a helluva good time with my Sylvania netbook that I got back in November.

For the heck of it, I downloaded Puppy Linux and installed it on a USB stick. The netbook boots the Puppy from the USB and, viola! It's a cute-as-can-be system and runs fast as blazes. I changed the appearance around a little (the snowman wallpaper), installed Opera, then saved it all back to the USB stick for next time.

It was fun on a cold night.

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