Bragging about my small Mint PC
Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 1:20 am
There are a few occasions when I get to promote Mint... mostly in the workplace.
(a) Whenever someone is showing off their latest cool gadget and no matter how BIG the cool factor might be, I enjoy interjecting and I am still surprised when my USB PC upstages whatever (and occasionally another Mint convert as well!)
(b) I work in a Microsoft environment... hundreds of 2003 and 2008 servers and mix of XP and Windows 7 clients; whenever I have to sort-out-fix-find some or other malware-virus that was supposed to have been taken out but wasn't for whatever reason I use my USB PC.
(c) When I need to recover data or partitions I use Testdisk on my USB PC.
(d) My colleagues know by now that if I'm gonna be presenting a meeting (as in an actual meeting room and using whatever available multimedia is there) then I'm gonna boot with my USB PC, remote to whatever LAN services or shares I might need and present whatever I have to present... but promoting and using Mint at the same time.
So what's so great about this USB? Well it's a regular pen-drive type so dimension wise it's small and formats to 8GB. It has Mint installed and the desktop appearance and apps are configured for my needs. Actually it pretty much lives in my pocket... until one of those occasions arrives. You can just imagine, a few years ago it was laptops being bragged about and now its either some Pad device or Android cell phone, and hey... I love gadgets and of course I enjoy seeing any new stuff... but then I pull out this plain looking USB device and brag about how small my 'parasite' PC is and that all it needs to function is a 'host'. Of course demonstrating it is the best!
I love bragging about Mint... especially in our Microsoft context. While I'm very good at working with my Microsoft stuff, I use Mint whenever I can. My home machines are all Mint based (one son prefers Mint KDE) and my work laptop only boots LMDE. I use a mix of rdesktop for LAN shares or admin and Oracle's VirtualBox (version 4 is really great!) to run a business client with Win 7 that has all the business AD policies applied to it. It keeps the upstream AD admins happy. I discovered Mint when a promo CD with v3.0 arrived at my desk. I moved from OpenSuse and have never bothered with any other distro since. Oh... there are at least 50 or so Mint users around this place!
(a) Whenever someone is showing off their latest cool gadget and no matter how BIG the cool factor might be, I enjoy interjecting and I am still surprised when my USB PC upstages whatever (and occasionally another Mint convert as well!)
(b) I work in a Microsoft environment... hundreds of 2003 and 2008 servers and mix of XP and Windows 7 clients; whenever I have to sort-out-fix-find some or other malware-virus that was supposed to have been taken out but wasn't for whatever reason I use my USB PC.
(c) When I need to recover data or partitions I use Testdisk on my USB PC.
(d) My colleagues know by now that if I'm gonna be presenting a meeting (as in an actual meeting room and using whatever available multimedia is there) then I'm gonna boot with my USB PC, remote to whatever LAN services or shares I might need and present whatever I have to present... but promoting and using Mint at the same time.
So what's so great about this USB? Well it's a regular pen-drive type so dimension wise it's small and formats to 8GB. It has Mint installed and the desktop appearance and apps are configured for my needs. Actually it pretty much lives in my pocket... until one of those occasions arrives. You can just imagine, a few years ago it was laptops being bragged about and now its either some Pad device or Android cell phone, and hey... I love gadgets and of course I enjoy seeing any new stuff... but then I pull out this plain looking USB device and brag about how small my 'parasite' PC is and that all it needs to function is a 'host'. Of course demonstrating it is the best!
I love bragging about Mint... especially in our Microsoft context. While I'm very good at working with my Microsoft stuff, I use Mint whenever I can. My home machines are all Mint based (one son prefers Mint KDE) and my work laptop only boots LMDE. I use a mix of rdesktop for LAN shares or admin and Oracle's VirtualBox (version 4 is really great!) to run a business client with Win 7 that has all the business AD policies applied to it. It keeps the upstream AD admins happy. I discovered Mint when a promo CD with v3.0 arrived at my desk. I moved from OpenSuse and have never bothered with any other distro since. Oh... there are at least 50 or so Mint users around this place!