On the Road Computing

Not been on for a while, due to work.  I'm on the road a bit, and what I'm doing takes up a goodly bit of my time.  By the end of the day, I'm not really wanting to do much more than to turn into a human-shaped vegetable for the evening. 

However, I have been a bit creative with my "vegging out."  I took along my X60s, running Mint, along with a couple bootable USB sticks, one with MacPup, the other with Precise Puppy.  And I have to say, they worked great.  They offered a bit of a change of pace, being able to slip from one operating system into another.  I was sort of able to sort out the "work" stuff (done under Mint) from the more "relaxing" stuff (usually done under MacPup, but occasionally switching off with Precise).

I've said it once, I'll say it again:  I am VERY impressed with the Puppy Linuxes.  They do what they say. 

I'm so impressed, in fact, that I just created another USB boot stick with Saluki Linux installed.  The install went great, and I only had one minor snag (if you can call it that).  I had to install FireFox, as the version of Saluki I have (023) only came with Midori.  The download and install of FF, along with Flash, went off without a hitch.  Everything works fine.

There is one bit of funkiness in this little story.  I was thinking about doing the Saluki install while on the road, and decided to do a little reading up on the OS.  I browsed IcyOS's videos, etc., then hit DistroWatch.  From there, I went to jump to the Saluki homepage, only to find it was "expired" and dead.  The download pages were the same.

Luckily I'd stashed away an .iso copy, but...

I dearly hope this is just some oddball hitch.  It's far too nice an OS to see it fall off into oblivion.  I haven't checked back lately to see if anything has changed.

Creepy.

In other news, the T400 is still at the Computer-Shop-Across-the-River.  They had to order a fan, and it just arrived.  They are going to try to get it up and running, hopefully by tomorrow.

I still haven't decided what to install on it...

Oh well...

Beyond that, not much is going on.  I intend to take a slow, restful weekend.  I hope everyone can do the same.