These may be the first (and last) vacations I’m bringing the laptop along and happily connected for a few hours a day, so I committed to do something unusual like planning migrating every WindowsXP laptop back home (3 of them) to Ubuntu. Heck, if I get lucky and manage to sell one of them I’m considering buying a MacBookPro to replace it. I’ve been using Ubuntu for a while now on the home server (or should I say “I’m using Debian” since I’m not using X?) and I’m pretty satisfied with it (so far).

Since the UbuntuWiki doesn’t mention a word about the Toshiba Tecra M1 I normally use for work, I’ve started this as a repository for the steps I’ve plunged into. This is a draft of the contents I’m about to submit there too. Work in progress. A lot of dumb theories founded by several years of absolutely no contact with Linux on the desktop front.

So here’s what I did.

If you can read this, it’s 4 o’clock in the morning, coffee is starting to kick in (g0d bless nespresso) and I’ve just migrated the server elsewhere. And I’m cooking Perl scripts over iptables to kick out referrer spamming from sites like http%%sborrate-in-faccia.com. And I’m reading Rui’s notes over the last few months about [...]