can we please post a sticky about portable linux in the request apps thread because i am sick and tired of 10,000 people a second requesting portable linux!!!!!!!! and i think i speak for everyone when i say we really need to deal with this before it goes more out of hand than it already is. and if we cant post a sticky about portable linux than can we at least put it in the forum rules or something?!?
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There's very very few requests a month of Linux for flash drives I've seen/
Almost all of the posts probably came from sergentsiler
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
If people really wanted Portable Linux apps, they just take one of the many Live CD's. Sure, it needs to reboot but has many apps preinstalled (and more can be temporary installed with the Live CD.
What I think what would be interesting is have a kind of multi-autorun for Mac, Linux and Windows with a multiplatform Portable menu a-la PAM and with applications that are available on Windows, Mac and Linux. (And only apps that are available for all three OS'es...)
That would be very very cool I think.
The only downside would be that it needs 3 times the normal space
what about a system where you boot linux from a CD but install programs onto a flash drive? That way you don't have to keep reinstalling them.
"No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices." - Edward R. Murrow
#1,
ok i was a little over dramatic on saying 10,000 requests per month but there are at least 2 or three a month and no one seems to get that john is working on it.
#2,
i have only requested portable linux 2 times and that was a long time ago when i was a mega noob.
#3,
people would not use portable apps if all they had to do was use a live cd, they would have all of the apps that they need on a pre loaded system. people request linux on portable apps because they like the idea of being able to plug in and click once and have there favorate linux boot up in a window.
Zoop
You are correct about the convenience and portability feature.
I like linux a great deal. I use portable windows programs partly becuase I dislike windows and that whole dumb registry nonsense
"No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices." - Edward R. Murrow
yah, it gets anoying after a while. and althogh i am a dedicated windows user, i do have a linux pc at my house, and besides, that is what Wine is for!
Zoop
you mean like linux live cd's already do?
cuz as far as i know, a live cd consists of a linux system that boot's into RAM and uses preconfigured and installed programs off of the cd or loads them into ram with the OS, meaning they dont install, ever so i am a little confused as to what you mean.
Zoop
yes, live CD's for linux are great, but don't you have to reinstall software everytime you boot the CD?
"No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices." - Edward R. Murrow
since it is preinstalled and already integrated into the operating system, all you have to is boot and execute the program. this is because the live cd is like a read only hard drive that is a copy of an already set up hard drive, all of the apps would have been installed on the hard drive so the "Copy" I.e. the live cd, would have them installed as well.
in short, the programs are pre installed and ready to use right off of the live cd, no install needed unless you reinstall your operating system from the live cd every time you boot.
Zoop