Hello. I am new at this forum so i am sorry if this goes in wrong place.
How long does it take to put Portable Linux? It has been saying "coming soon" for like a year.
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such thing, since either you boot into an operating system from some media or you have it run inside some virtual environment. Both needs drivers to be installed so it will not be portable then.
You can try the usb installation of any linux distro, they all have such feature included now so there is no point in doing some special version again.
Or you try https://portableapps.com/node/13944
Or even better, try to use search function in the forum here, you will find dozens of threads dealing with this.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
ok thank you very much
do you know how to mark this as SOLVED?
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edit your main post and add a [solved] to the title.
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A common answer to questions is "That needs drivers." Sometimes it is not clear to me why the solution requires direct hardware access.
Yeah, except as usual it requires admin access and it is 32-bit only. And he doesn't seem to be redistributing sources for the included GPL bits either.
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I'm not saying it's as portable as your stuff. Maybe good for some. Sorry to hear about the GPL violation.
the solution is based on colinux.
This is an approach used for some time, the first I had on my stick was the pubuntu.
Colinux is shearing the hardware resources assigned otherwise to windows. This is done by installing number of drivers so to tell simple, it steals some resources from windows and gives them to the linux. So it is not running under windows, it runs on its own on the hardware, it just 'steals' some part of the computing power and graphic functions and other hardware functions form the running windows system.
However it can not be done with simply any distro to be copied somewhere, it needs little modified kernel which is able to access the hardware via those special drivers installed.
This answers the question why it needs direct access to hardware. Note that Linux is not an application, it is operating system which can not , and never will run as application under windows. Therefore you need either a virtual machine, or some translation like qemu, or this special kernel solution like colinux.
One thing should be observed, with colinux , lot of functions otherwise buikld into the kernel do not work as usual, so many configurations are entirely different then otherwise in the particular distro. (e.g. many functions avaiable from the GUI are not operational etc)
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland