Linked by Will Gunadi on Tue 5th Apr 2005 14:11 UTC
Today, there is no shortage of reviews on Linux on the Desktop, but I think we can benefit from more "Laptopized-Linux" experiences. As laptops keep dropping in price and increasing in terms of computing power, they really make a nice platform even for cpu intensive applications such as sofware development, desktop publishing, web design, etc. And as you will see in this article, installing Linux on a laptop is not as hairy as you may think.
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To edit remote files, open Nautilus, from file menu select 'Connect to Server' and fill in the details about your SSH/FTP/Samba/WebDAV server and save. An icon to browse this should appear on the destop and can be used indefinitly from then on (even after reboot). To edit, just drag and drop files to to GEdit for instance.
This is fantastic for browsing. Unfortunately, Gedit can only open remote files read-only at the moment, and I believe that's as good as app support gets right now. Don't even think about trying vim. gVim tries to open remote files served by gnomevfs via sftp, but in every case I've tried it's failed (no access to keyring, perhaps). And if vim can't touch it, it's not of much use to me. For now, it's good enough to drag-n-drop from my ssh connection to my desktop, work there, and drag back when I'm done. It would be nice to get remote editing capabilities though.