<p>This topic helps with two things. One is to upgrade an old Ubuntu release to a new release, and by old I mean one that is no longer supported. Keep in mind that if say 9.04 is unsupported, but 9.10 is still supported, you can simply do the <tt>do-release-update</tt>. This doc helps when both 9.04 and 9.10 and above are EOL (end of life). Second is to maintain the use of an old Ubuntu distro even after its repositories stop working. Basically if you don't install the LTS (Long Term Support) release of Ubuntu then your distro is only supported for about a year. After that year all your repositories (using apt-get) fail and cannot be found. <strong>This is because Ubuntu archives the old repositories to a different URL.</strong> You don't actually have to upgrade your old Ubuntu distro, and you can continue to use it and its repos, you just have to switch to the new repo URL's. See below.</p>

Awesome ubuntu respins (wow, this is what I have been looking for forever, its perfect) https:help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization Nice ubuntu remaster, notice how they copy certain home folders to /etc/skel http:crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/2859/remastersys-guide-create-your-own-ubuntubased-distro/ http:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_remastering_software remastersys (debian ubuntu) systemimager (any?) kickstart (Red Had/Fedora/Centos) remasterme (PCLinuxOS) Mount an ISO, then chroo...

apt-get install samba Add the linux user, but disable linux box login useradd -d /home/username -s /bin/false -n username This will create a new user with same group name with (told by '-n'), but the user can't login and run any shell command (because you have specfic the login shell is /bin/false by the '-s' switch, if you want allow user to able to login to a shell, replace /bin/false with /bin/sh). Create a samba user (same as linux username created above) smbpasswd -a username '-a' switch t...

See LXF 114 p48, 'Banish Your Daemons' Runlevels are defined levels in which a linux operating system can start. Daemons (or services) are scripts/programs that run in the background constantly (like apache or mysql are services that are always running) and are usually executed at startup by the defined runlevel. Runlevels are identified by a number from 0 - 6, but each linux distribution may use those numbers a bit differently. Basically a runlevel determines which daemons to execute at startu...