Mageia can also be used to setup fast, clean and easy to use server systems.
Installation from the Wired Network-based install CD
Building a simple lightweight web kiosk system with Arch GNU/Linux
Optimized for maximum boot speed and read-only filesystem operation (especially for usb drives and other flash memory cards).
DISCLAIMER : As always, use this tutorial at your own risk!
Hardware used for this howto :
Mini-ITX motherboard with Pentium-M 1.5GHz (centrino)
512M DDR ram
Integrated graphics, sound and ethernet.
8G Compact Flash card with IDE-CF adapter.
Arch Linux on the HP Pavilion DM1-3xxx notebook (AMD E-350 “Zacate” based series)
Computer specs
Specs will vary, my model is the 3130.
Goal of this tutorial
To quickly setup a functional, lightweight Arch Linux system, optimized for our portable computer.
This guide may evolve during time as I try to improve my Linux experience 
Installing a FreeBSD 9.0 (i386) minimal desktop system
FreeBSD 9.0 RELEASE (i386)
Minimal desktop for web browsing, email, video, music playing…
Useful references :
Tested in a VirtualBox 4.1.8 virtual machine with
- 512Mb RAM
- 8.0Gb Hard disk
SONY VAIO PCG-Z600TEK (aka PCG-5316) – Debian GNU/Linux install notes
A friend gave me this old laptop from the early 2000′s.
Here are my personal notes about installing an optimized and lightweight Debian GNU/Linux system on this machine, mainly for internet browsing / music playing (with external speakers!)
Official support pages
Computer specs
PIII 700MHz
128 Mb SDRAM on the motherboard, 1 SODIMM slot available for RAM upgrade (Specs says this computer can be upgraded upto 256 Mb at max!)
8 Mb Video RAM (ATI Rage Mobility M1)
20 Gb HDD (a Win2000 system was installed)
No CD / No floppy drive
No booting from USB! / No PXE boot!
No Wifi
Dead battery!
Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) on iMac G3 (PowerPC)
Guide updated 07/17/2012 : some mistakes corrected!
Netinstall and a lightweight desktop
I recently got an old iMac G3 and felt the need to replace the crappy existing MacOS 9 system with my favorite system : Linux of course!
After a mandatory RAM upgrade (from stock 64M to 512M), I found that the CD drive is extremely picky/worn-out and wouldn’t boot any burned install CDs…
But that’s not enough to stop me, since those iMac models support booting from the network.
I first tried to netboot Debian Squeeze on it, but there were some issues (yaboot started but couldn’t load the kernel).
After some research, it appears that Ubuntu has an updated netinstall iso which just works!
Creating a Wireless Access Point with Debian Linux
A quick and dirty way to recycle an older computer with a wifi adapter.
Adapted from original HowTo (Thanks Matt!) at :
http://mcbridematt.dhs.org/blog/2010/11/21/HOWTO%3A%20HostAP%20%28Master%29%20mode%20for%20Ralink%20rt73%20USB%20wifi
Other sources :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridging_%28networking%29
http://wiki.debian.org/BridgeNetworkConnections
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/hostapd
