Hi,
recently came accross this site when looking thorugh the latest PC World magazine and thought i would check it out. I know the current issue has a portable OS or resuce disk / recuse USB on the attached CD, but it says if this is loaded on a USB the remaining memory become in accessable thus should limit it to the smallest size stick possibe or on a CD. does the OS you can download here and take with you on your USB stick have the same effect or can i still save directly to the USB stick with the portable apps OS loaded on it if i am not using the portable apps OS but the OS on the computer i were to be using or use it to transfer install files from one PC to another without first uninstalling the portable apps OS.
also what happens to the desktop / OS on the computer when you decide to do your work using the portable OS suite residing on your USB stick.
is it like taking your entire desktop and transferring it with its applications to a stick, using it on another computer but none of that actually stays on the computer but on the USB stick itself?
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I think you might have misunderstood the things you can download here. There is no OS behind it, those are apps, including the suite, which do run under windows, and yes many under Linux via WINE.
So nothing happens to the OS of the PC, in fact the aim is to leave as little traces as possible.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
I'm seeing a lot of the abuse of the word "OS". Sorry, but the "OS" you are speaking of doesn't exist. These are applications created portable through a launcher .exe, stored the same way as you would store a document or picture.
If you wish to have a "portable OS", There is MojoPac, Which does Windows XP.
Na na na, come on!
There is the Mandriva[previously Mandrake]Flash, it's what I use
but that is Linux on-a-stick.
It does have Windows versions of FireFox and Thunderbird(with a Windows' launcher), upgradeable by the normal desktop method. From the launcher you can initiate a reboot to start Linux [set BIOS first], sync settings by copying your windows profile folder contents into the windows versions on the stick and they will be carried over to the Linux versions as they share. Of course updating them requires
waiting for the repositories and mirror sites to have stable packages to d/l.