ive only been using portable aps for about a month and think there fantastic, i was intrigued by the requests for a portable linux distro, i recently found a website
that has a few linux distros on it that all work from a usb stick.
take a look if your interested.
ps. i did look for a topic like this one but couldn't find one so my appologies if its been on before
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Not really portable linux in the sense that sometimes rebooting is not allowed or is too suspicious (at least for me I can't just reboot on most public comps I get to)
But can say that slax is pretty good, did not test on USB drive yet but I did test on CD.
ps. i did look for a topic like this one but couldn't find one
There's a thread in OT called "portable operating system".
Vintage!
I found DSL or Damn Small Linux to work on my flash drive. It works inside Windows but I don't know about other OS's. The file that loads it is a batch file so the Portable Apps Suite doesn't include it in the menu. If anyone knows how to work around this to have it included in the Suite menu that would be great. There is a link to it from: http://pendrivelinux.com
Enjoy!
I found that DSL under windows worked fine AND since it "talked" to my wireless access point via windows, I could get online. The WAP is a Motorola, and there are apparently no Linux drivers available.
I apologize in advance if this is a stupid question, but I want to be absolutely positive that this will work before I use it...
Does this mean that when I plug in my flash drive, Linux will boot, and when I remove it, it will go back to windows?
Please pardon my English, I'm from Wisconsin.
you plug in your drive, run one batch file and you will have a Linux distro in a winroz window. So windoz will run in the background all the time.
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Maybe have a look at QEMU (http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/); I've run it before from a USB-stick (not on my current one, though... haven't gotten around to it) - I can't remember the original source of the idea, though, or I'd credit them...
The only disadvantage is you'll need a reasonably sizeable USB stick to run qemu/linux, depending on how much you can pare down your linux install. If you've got a couple of gig free, there's always the possibility of doing the same trick with a WinXP/2k3 install, too; there's tools available to strip away the excess in those OS's.
I'm not sure how QEMU will deal with admin privileges (or the lack thereof)... I'd guess the acceleration module wouldn't handle it too well.
A quick google turned up this, might be worth a read: http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/qemupuppy/index.html
-p
Edit: alright, I need to read the links better; the pendrivelinux link above contains a bit of info on QEMU running Linux. Still worth investigating, though.