Finally I managed to buy a Asus EEE PC 700  this week. I would thanks a lot Next Store and its kindly clerks, which I will prefer in future to Mediaword :)
If you are at Milan and you plan to buy it, Next Store is a good choice.

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One day, we have the need to create a fast cluster of linux machine, specialized and easy to segragate in different networks (for better security). We need web servers, integration servers (running java hudson), huge developer machines (running for instance eclispe) and so on.

It was not easy to find a good environment. This research lead us also to consider a very huge set of different and complex management software. In this series of article, we will show what we discovered.

Or final goal is to have a way to define a set of linux virutal machines, connect them and manage all using open source software. We also want tools easy to understand. We do not want super-optimized stuff, we have the "just it works well" approach.

We thinked about these types of virtual machine: super light LAMP servers, medim sized java tomcat servers (or udson servers), big database machines and super big development machines.

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Setting up a bunch of Linux machines is easier now, thank to company like http://turnkeylinux.org/

At Gioorgi.com we have the need to setup a tiny box with PHP Mysql and a bunch of unix utilities, to automate common tasks.

We took one of the TurnKey iso, and then we customized it via the apt-* utilities. Let's see the steps

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La Intel ha commercializzato da poco i NUC, (Next Unit of Computing): si trattà di unità compatte dalle dimensioni di un palmo, con doppia uscite HDMI e diverse categorie di processori Intel.

Sono ottimi come media server, ma è possibile anche usarli come server, come vedremo

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