What could be really cool addition to portable apps is a small Linux distrobution that can fit onto a small flash drive and have most of the apps available. Portable Apps could distribute a lot of the apps in linux form for the OS. I probably can work on this but no promises. If you can help or have comments post. Thanks.
just before you earn some flames , as this was asked so many times and discussed so many times here.
The answer will be probably in the direction: why to do such thing, there are so many linux distros with life system around, any size , any power any language and thousands of programs , so why should someone start next such project?
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
there has been many discussions on this.
You need to be able to boot to USB to be able to use a portable OS or for those OS's within an OS like COlinux you need admin rights which takes away from the point of having a portable app.