Picture Julie Andrews running through a mountain meadow, twirling around in circles singing about the hills being alive. Now picture that same “hill” covered with snow and skiers and other people out experiencing the fresh powder. This christmas album is unique as its by the real von Trapp Childeren (well, the new generation anyways) that was the source for The Sound of Music and on this release they please us with some really cool Christmas Tunes.

From PRWeb:
The TuxMobil project covers all aspects concerning Linux on laptops and notebooks. The number of free guides and how-to’s has more than doubled in less than three years, and more than 7,000 links to Linux laptop and notebook installation and configuration guides are now listed at TuxMobil.

Berlin, Germany (PRWEB) December 12, 2007 — TuxMobil recently announced the publication of 7,000 Linux installation and configuration guides for laptops and notebooks on its Web site. The number of free guides and how-to’s available through TuxMobil has more than doubled in less than three years.

In the Linux community, it’s common tradition to help other members by publishing free guides on many different aspects of the open source operating system. These guides and how-to’s are suitable for newbies as well as experts. Most of the guides are in English, but special TuxMobil sections are dedicated to other languages.

TuxMobil indexes the guides by manufacturer and model as well as by processor type, display size and Linux distribution. Almost any laptop manufacturer (more than 220) is covered. All major Linux distributions (Redhat, Fedora, Gentoo, Debian, Novell/SuSE, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Knoppix) and many not-so-well-known distributions are present. Besides Linux, the site includes sections that cover other Unix derivatives like BSD, Minix and Solaris.

Tablet PCs or WebPads are special types of laptops that are built either as slates without a keyboard or as convertibles. Both kinds require a sophisticated configuration. Linux installation guides for Tablet PCs and a survey of suitable drivers and applications like handwriting-recognition tools are described in a separate section.

A great number of accessories and gadgets for laptops and notebooks are compatible with Linux. TuxMobil provides details about Linux hardware compatibility for PCMCIA cards, miniPCI cards, ExpressCards, infrared, BlueTooth, wireless LAN adapters and Webcams.

Laptop development paces quickly, and new approaches to WLAN standards, power management, graphics chipsets or CPU features come up every few months. Linux development also is fast, so the need for current Linux laptop installation guides will not diminish in the near future. TuxMobil encourages its users to write their own guides to help.

Laptop manufacturer support for the Linux operating system is still in its early stages, although some third-party companies offer professional support or allow users to purchase a laptop with Linux preloaded. TuxMobil provides an international survey of vendors dedicated to your free operating system of choice, which offer pre-installed Linux laptops, notebooks, mobile phones and PDAs for sale, as well as accessories that are compatible to Linux.

About TuxMobil
Starting with an installation report about Linux on his first laptop, published by founder Werner Heuser, TuxMobil has been online for 10 years. It has become the biggest online resource about Linux and mobile computers. The name TuxMobil is an abridgement of the words “Tux” and “mobil”. Tux is the well-known name of the Linux mascot and “mobil” is just a shortcut for mobile.

Shhhhh. Listen to Mia and her band. Listen as they play and take you to another place and time. Sit back and enjoy. They’re a UK band with a really, really cool sound thats nice to just chill to.

So when I had ‘rented’ (yes, rented, I don’t own the box this site sits on, I mearly lease it…) this server I ran apt-get upgrade to take care of updating several items on the server and I could have sworn that I masked out the kernel packages. Apparently, i didn’t and apt removed the kernel images and stuff needed to boot. Yar. Not good.

As would happen, I had to reboot and the box would not come back up. My wonderful host looked at it and told me what was wrong, offered to copy my data to a slave drive and reinstall the system from scratch. You would have thought that since this server was up for less than a month, this would be a freebie, but no, they wanted me to pony up $69 for this wonderful service. Mind you, they couldn’t get a kernel on there to get the system booted again to what it once was.

Me, being remarkably resourceful, and knowing a thing or two about admining a debian install (three years as tech support for a web hosting company I figured I could do what they couldn’t, so I had them boot it with a live cd and give me an ip address I could access the box from.

So armed with the ip address, the root password they created and knowledge of google and apt-get I logged on to the box on Saturday morning and ran a simple command:

apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.18-i386

and with in less than ten minutes the kernel had been replaced and I was ready for them to reboot the box minus the cdrom.

Mind you, it must have worked because you’re reading this today… and I still have my $69.

I came across these guys while listening to tracks at amie street and I liked the sound that Breaking Laces brought to the scene. Reminds me a little of Jack Johnson and his bubble toes (the beginning does anyway).

Have a listen and enjoy!