I’ve been thinking and planning to build/install a custom version of either devian or ubuntu which will be installed on a USB Drive for carrying arround wherever I go.
I want this to achieve the following
- Porvide a fully functional bash shell.
- Allow a X server to run with either Fluxbox or XFCE.
- Synchronise with Local copies of Applications like Evolution and Opera
- Have basic multimedia features.
I thought it would be better to have two partitions. A FAT32 Partition to store all my data (will be mounted under /media/data of /home/surajram/data). This partition should be accessible by traditional Windows or DOS OSs. I guess it would be best to make the other partitition as ext3. I am also thinking of using an alternate filesystem like reiserFS, have to consider the performance differences.
Any windows mobile user will know how the Windows Mobile needs a lot of soft resets and hard resets to keep it working smooth. With every such reset, you tend to loose a large potential of data if not backed up properly. Trust me, Active sync is not the solution to your backup needs.
While backing up any notes, documents or any other file is pretty much straight forward as copying the files and pasting them on your storage card using the file manager, Backing up PIM data like contacts, calendar entries, tasks and e mails is a difficult chore…
Thankfully there is a freeware Data Backup utility that handles this task with ease and simplicity. Titled HTC Data Backup (I am not sure how it is related to the HTC) this midget of an application backs up all your data to a file on the storage card. (You can specify the file name). It also has another ‘restore’ mode to restore any backed up data in case of a device failure. Neat eh?
Download HTC Data Backup
For some unknown reason, wordpress dosent seem to behave properly with Linux. For instance i’m not able to make new posts etc from my ubuntu machine. I have tried it using FF3 and Opera9.5 but both seem to fail 
