Run Linux inside Windows anyone?

I found this article on digg website and hey did Linux and Windows just married???
This OS is called andLinux, it is a complete system of Ubuntu Linux that can run in Windows 2000 based system (2000, XP, 2003, Vista 32 bit). And yes this andLinux is free so we can happily run this inside our windows. This project was started for Dynamism for the GP2X community, but its userbase far exceeds its original design

This thing work just like VMware that i used to run Ubuntu 7.10 on my windows XP. The reason I used it instead of just making a partition on my hard disk is I still love my XP (playing games, games, and games). The different is this CoLinux run inside windows and not emulate just like VMware, Virtual PC. This making it more efficient (hope not eat much ram for it to run :D).

Some screenshot of andLinux

Desktop

Start menu (KDE version) is in window`s tray menu


The XFCE Panel


Requirements to run this andLinux:


* OS: Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista [32-bit only]
* Memory: at least 128 MB (192 MB or more is recommended)
* Hard disk space: 2.5 GB (XFCE version) / 4.5 GB (KDE version)
Note that you need an NTFS file system (which is default since Windows 2000) because you can't create files larger than 2 GB on FAT(32) file systems!
* A good internet connection (to be able to install further applications)
* Some basic Linux skills to proceed once andLinux is installed


You will get:

* a fully functional Linux system, however without the usual desktop (you've already got one from Windows)
* a second panel (e.g. at the top of your Windows desktop) or a second start menu (in the system tray next to the clock), from which you can start Linux applications
* Linux applications and Windows applications can be used simultaneously and you can cut and paste text between them
* apt / synaptic to install further applications

You will NOT get:

* another desktop
* the bench of applications that usually ship with Linux distributions (you have to fetch whatever you want)
* a printer driver
* trouble with further drivers (becouse you are in Windows dude... )


Source andLinux website

Ubuntu and me

This is my screenshot of ubuntu running on my laptop Compaq C738TU.
nice but i still prefer to my windows xp coz i like playing NFS Pro street

Exploring ubuntu

Yeah... semenjak 2 3 menjak ni aku dah try2 explore ubuntu. Rasa best sebab pakai desktop environment kan... cube letak terminal je mau terhegeh2 aku nak configure. BTW aku masuk Ubuntu 7.10 kedalam VMWARE je. malas nak format partition aku jadi ber'slice2' kalau ikutkan nak boleh je.

Sekarang ini aku tengah berekperiment dengan Zenoss dan Nagios. Apa kegunaan 2 makhluk tu?? 2 makhluk tu bagus untuk network monitoring dan yang berkaitan. So aku dah berjaya untarkan pakej (macam winzip@winrar juga 'extract') Setelah berjaya aku buat satu folder kat root. Tapi bila je nak install dia mintak mysql pulak dah... huhu.. noob betul la aku ni..



So lepas je download mysql (tengah download ni kt opis laju sket) nanti aku mount usb disk aku kat ubuntu tu dan install. So pendapat aku tentang ubuntu ni, sama je dengan windows cuma kene rajin menaip je.. Dan fungsi UAC (User Account Control) dalam Windows Vista sebenarnya amat sebijik macam dalam linux/unix ni. Kalau nak buat perubahan skrin akan gelap pastu system tanya password user/root. Cuma pengguna Windows ni je yang malas, pastu pulak boleh disablekan UAC ni.

OK la sampaii sini saja... bye.

Mount USB device in Linux/Unix

Today, as the growing of portable disk USB many of us carry a data in it. I found out a little trouble to using it in older Linux/unix operating system that have USB port but when i plug the usb, the OS cannot detect the disk. The using 'pakcik Google', I found a solution in My digital life blog.

To manually mount a USB disk or USB drive or USB device in Linux or UNIX:

1. Login as root. You can use the su command to switch to root user.
2. Create a folder /mnt/USB with the command: mkdir /mnt/USB
3. Add the following line in the file /etc/fstab (fstab is the file that tells Linux where to mount the various devices,

and thus simplying the mount command):

/dev/sda1 /mnt/USB auto noauto,owner,kuzu 0 0

Note: The “auto” on the above line means auto detection of filesystem. If your system unable to determine the

filesystem type, change it accordingly to the USB drive’s filesystem (e.g. vfat or ntfs or ext2 or ext3).
4. Mount the USB storage device with the following command: mount /dev/sda1

Without the need modifying fstab (step 3), you can also straight away issue the mount command (step 4) with the following

syntax:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/USB

If you know the filesystem of the USB drive or the system unable to determine the correct filesystem, the -t option can be

used to the filesystem type of the USB device:

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb (for vFAT filesystem)
mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb (for NTFS filesystem)

Sometimes, the USB drive or USB storage device is detected by the system but been assigned a different device name from sda1.

If so, the correct device name need to be determined by viewing and OS log file. Usually the Linux and UNIX boot and log

message is stored in /var/log/messages, and you can view the log messages with the following commands:

tail -f /var/log/messages

or

dmesg

Check for the name of the device that appears after operating system detects the USB devices.

After using the USB disk, remember to unmount the USB drive with the following command to avoid any possible loss to the data

or changes and risk messing up your partition.

umount /mnt/USB

Dual booting windows and Ubuntu

After long hours surfing and google with some ubuntu issues, i found a great tutorial writen in Bahasa Indonesia at ubuntu geek website. The tutorial very useful for those who want to dual boot with windows and linux. just head over to this link

Useful terminal command linux

Its been a long time I not write anything in this blog. Yes, ive been busy with work and at home I don't have an internet connection (3.5G or streamyx). Today I want to share a bit useful command in linux.


Show some computer stats

lspci

Access a dictionary through terminal (must have a working internet connection)
Note: Replace ‘word’ with whatever you’d like to search for (without quotes)

curl dict://dict.org/d:word

Check system temperature and battery charge

acpi -t

See a list of all running processes

ps aux

View the current time, date, and year

date

Show a simple calendar

cal

See what programs are running with the path names

ps -aux

See your current IP address

ifconfig -a

See what your system is doing at startup

dmesg

Show information about the computer users

finger -l

Show current Ubuntu version

cat /etc/issue

System Recovery

Backup xorg.conf

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf_backup

Replace current xorg.conf with a previously made backup

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf_backup /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Delete auto xorg.conf backups

sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf.2007*

Use nano to edit xorg.conf (works in “terminal-only” mode)

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf