Bars of Ham

I switch between various distros of linux often. The most annoying part is losing all my data and having to resetup my home directory the way I want it. Carthik from Ubuntu Blog has an easy write up on how to transfer your home directoy to it’s own partition. That way you can continously switch out distros to your hearts content. He writes:

Having the “/home” directory tree on it’s own partition has several advantages, the biggest perhaps being that you can reinstall the OS (or even a different distro of Linux) without losing all your data. You can do this by keeping the /home partition unchanged and reinstalling the OS which goes in the “/” (root) directory, which can be on a seperate partition.

But you, like me, did not know this when you first installed Ubuntu, and have not created a new partition for “/home” when you first installed Ubuntu. Despair not, it is really simple to move “/home” to its own partition.

Read on at his blog…

For those of you who have visited the Ubuntu online store since Hardy Heron came out, you’ve undoubtedly seen the Hardy Heron t-shirt design. It’s a gorgeous design and a t-shirt I’d want even if I’d never heard of Ubuntu. But the two big problems I’ve had with obtaining the shirt were 1.) the t-shirt costs nearly $30.00 and 2.) they sold out extremely quickly.

Since Ubuntu rolls out with a new version every 6 months (next is Intrepid Ibex) I knew my chances were slim that I’d get a hand on one of those sweet t-shirts. Since these guys were open source I figured it wouldn’t hurt to at least ask for the “source file” for the t-shirt design. Here was their reply:

Hi Devin,

Thank-you very much for your enquiry and sorry for the delay in getting back to you.

Unfortunately you are correct, we will be brining out the Intrepid Ibex shirts at the end of this month so we will no longer be producing the 2nd edition mens Hardy Heron T-shirts.

I have attached an EPS of the hardy heron design. Hopefully you can use this to produce a T-shirt for yourself.

Keep spreading the Ubuntu love.

Warm regards,

The Canonical Store Team

So now, for all of you out there that wanted one of these shirts as well, here’s the file they sent to me.

So I own a Sony Vaio VGN-S460P and am in no way particularly sufficient at the computer, let alone Linux (thus why this page did little to help me). But with the amount of difficulty I had obtaining information about my laptop and it’s compatability with Linux I figured I’d post about my experiences.

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