I'm almost done migrating my ancient laptop system over to my new (K)ubuntu 7.04 system. In the past, I did these migrations in the most tedious manners possible. However, this time one thing I decided to facilitate was using NFS for copying files over as opposed to scp or rsync. I've done a little bit of work with NFS in the past, but this is the first time I implemented it successfully at home. And this article does a good job of showing just how easy it's handled.
I'm thinking that once I finish migrating the rest of my system over (which is just some files, directories, and my application configuration) I will upgrade my laptop to the latest edition of Fedora Core or PCLinuxOS. I like (K)ubuntu a lot but I think it's good to have a wide variety of Linux flavors to test drive each one. On top of that, I'm also considering making my laptop a kind of "dumb" client terminal, where my desktop Linux box will serve as a permanent NFS system and that I'll mount my main home directory from this system. The idea here is that I'm becoming super lazy in the way I work and that I really want to just work from my couch (couch potato programming anyone?). My laptop has been doing some serious damage to my wrist so I want to move it around a bit. The only issue will be the touchpad, which I really dislike. But I'll figure out something there too eventually.
Either way, I was pleasantly surprised at how this tutorial helped make my NFS work with just one try. Give it a shot.
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