I am a Linux noob. I know my way around windows pretty good. I was looking for a mobile device that gave me freedom from always carrying a laptop around. I discovered the N8x0 over a year ago and it really got my interest up for Linux. Now I have Ubuntu on all my PCs. But I still have a need for windows every now and then so in every install I partitioned the hard drive and have both OS that I can choose to boot into(and is really easy to setup in Ubuntu). It is a really good system for me. There is still a few things that I can't get drivers for linux (even using wine is not always successful), so being able to boot into either OS works perfect for me.

By the way I have not used other Linux versions, so I can't say which one is better. Although, I have notice that Ubuntu is widely used and there for has a lot of help support in their forums. Which I've used a lot.

For literature, I recommend Safari Books Online. This is the famous O'Reilly Books, blessed by techs for many years. You can subscribe for a small monthly fee and get access to five or ten books in the vast O'Reilly collection, or for forty dollars a month you can have unlimited access to everything. You can change your level of subscription quickly and easily, and dropping the subscription entirely is also easy.

Reading O'Reilly books on the N810 works fine if you have a wireless connection.

I found this service really handy when I lived in Moscow and didn't have good access to tech books in English, but I'm happily using it here in the US as well.

This probably won't help on your fifty hours of flights, but might after you get Over There or while you are still here. (Though I hear wireless is coming to airlines soon...)

I'm sorry for my previous respond. I was more of angry about something I had in that day and with bad news flooding on me all over this month.
The good thing is , I am more cool now.

What your automated usb creator was doing is simply preserving a space that lets you save your files in it. (Think more of a zip/rar file with a fixed space). By this each time you are booting your live-usb. It is using the same files (Old files/Packages) and extract the packaged file into the system (In Linux file structures it allow this with no problem). Ok let me explain more, now when you install a program for example the changes of that is getting inside the packaged file and in next booting it will be unpacked so its to you would be like it saved your files/programs. In reality an updated file for a program that is 300kb and the updated package is like 310kb ,your system would be only growing by 10kbs but in this method that is using, it will grow by 310kb (300kb program is in a big file archived will get unpacked then your fixed packaged file would be replacing that file which means a two different version of the same program is exist ,however this apply only on the first-second level ,and any level after that is without any effect on increasing the size for the same compounds).

I hope I explained this clearly

With the part where I asked you to write 'uname -r' and then update your kernel and try to see the difference was going to show the same result (Same kernel name) which means you didn't update your kernel. Because when your live-usb boots it is going to use the old kernel and the method of replacing the files is useless in this case.
I gave you the answer for this while I though you should have been done it as an experiment , still someone might use this post as a reference.

if you are into this subject then google for "isolinux" or "syslinux"
As I don't think I should explain everything isn't related to the "Help Help" topic.

OH! NOW I understand what you mean. When it boots, its still the old kernel, but the casper extracts parts to make it seem new. Am I right?

@Christexaport: Yup

Now this thread can die in peace.