The Hetzner DS-8000 servers feature a 3ware RAID card (8006-2LP) for hardware RAID 1, a nice feature – although the default CentOS setup is slightly broken with SELinux. After several hours of wondering why smartd wouldn't work, /var/log/audit/audit.log reveals the following:

type=AVC msg=audit(1223922183.059 …

One great thing we see with Linux is that it's used for servers quite frequently, it's probably one of the strongest points about it. A strong and stable server platform which many companies rely on to run many parts of their infrastructure for an organisation.

A common situation we'll see …

Okay, I didn't last long. After 24 hours of sticking with Linpus I eventually decided to install Ubuntu on the laptop, even though adjusting it for the Aspire One was going to involve some tweaking – sticking with Linpus would've ended up annoying me.

The AspireOne page on the Ubuntu wiki …

After resisting the EeePC for so long in the hope that better ultra portable laptops would appear with better specs, I finally decided to go for an Acer Aspire One. The 8GB flash storage and 512MB RAM are perfectly adequate for basic use in Linux, it's a great little device …