General Discussion

Please!!!! Stop asking for portable operating systems. all of us regular users of this site are sick and tired of seeing the constant in flow of portable os requests. for one, we already have a portable operating system (not developed by us) called Mac-On-Stick. second, a truely portable operating system is already in the works and will be done when it is done!

so once again, Please stop asking.

Me again, the forensic therapist computer ignoramus...

If it is not possible/practical/legal (i've read all three options here) to create a truly portable XP or other flavor of Windows, then perhaps someone could devise a way to securely erase any traces left behind if one boots XP from USB.

I've started on a comparison page for PortableApps at http://cubegames.net/development/compare
From what I've been able to see, everything should be correct, but the page needs to be fleshed out with some better descriptions. The format is based on http://htmlpurifier.org/comparison.html

Anyone care to help out?

Howdy all, I just wanted to inform the community of the changes that have occurred in the PortableApps.com IRC support channel, #portableapps on irc.freenode.net.

As discussed previously by Ryan, there are 3 main 'positions' we've set up; Operators, Gurus, and DeMos.

Operators have full channel access, and have the most 'authority' in the channel.

Gurus are members who hang in the channel often are and typically helpful in providing support to users as well as managing the channel.

Will you still use Portable Firefox 2?

Let me preface my question by noting that I am a psychotherapist, not a computer guru. I'm married to a PhD in computer science but his area is quantum information theory and that offers little in the way of help.

My question: Is it possible to develop an XP-type operating system that will run truly portable? I.e. leave no traces on the computer when it is shut down? If so, is anyone working on that? Status?

Thanks for any advice you can give.

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For PAM 1.1

While looking through the Firefox 3 Portable option pane in the "Applications" tab I noticed that "mailto" links are now set as a "mimetype" so you can use Thunderbird Portable for mailtos. I set it up myself. I just went to the aforementioned panel went to "mailto" and chose "Thunderbird Portable.exe." It works. I tried it on a couple links.

I'm working on Notepad++ Portable 5.1 and there are a few issues I'd like to run by everyone. Notepad++ 5.1 introduces a split into a Unicode and ANSI version just like Miranda IM, WinDirStat and others. So, I've been debating whether to include Unicode and ANSI and switch between them as we do with other apps, or just do Unicode to save space and packaging time as Windows 9x support is ending for most of our major apps in the next couple months anyway.

I wonder if there could ever be a PA version outthere that can work on any type of system eg Linux, XP, Vista, Mac.

Basically I would like to be able to use my portable apps on any of the mentioned systems. even if i had to use a different launcher for each that would be ok I am so used to using my system in xp and am trying ubuntu Linux out. but sadly i cant get PA Suite to run on it. and none of my apps will either. Has been disused before somewhere round here and I missed it.