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So, the wraps are off the Secret Project - it’s Mandriva Linux One, the first beta of which is on mirrors (in /devel/iso/2006.0) now. It’s basically an installable live CD, in the vein of PCLinuxOS etc. I tested it out in VMware today and it works amazingly well for a first beta - scarily fast, [...]

adamw@ubuntu510:~$ sudo scp 192.168.2.7:/etc/hosts /etc
adamw@ubuntu510:~$ sudo nano /etc/hosts
sudo: unable to lookup ubuntu510 via gethostbyname()
…yeah, sudo, it’s all very clever until someone loses an eye!
I have a bunch of entries in /etc/hosts because of having four local systems plus a bunch of VMware machines etc. So now when I set up a new VMware machine I [...]