General Discussion

I'm not an expert on open source licenses, however it seems that it is possible under the GPL and MPL to distribute software commercially. There are lots of online stores selling various linux distros.

Is it possible to sell a usb drive with the portableapps suite pre-installed on it.

If so is any body doing this ?

I am in high school and I have to do a Graduation Project.

I have chosen Open-Source Software...

And for my product I have chosen to find a way to improve on Firefox Portable...
I do not have any coding experience but I really want to do this... is there anybody out there who can help get started... like what kind of coding language I should learn and stuff like that if anybody is willing to help me that would totally awesome...

Just wondered if John knows about this site, http://www.democrakey.com/ ,it looks like he is redistributing the menu with John's branding. Wondered if this is OK, as looks a bit suspect to me!

Depends on the license that the menu has I suppose, and of course John might be involved, but if not, though I'd let you know!

Just a few things I've noticed:

• The <img /> for the RSS button isn't closed
• The front page says "Click here for more" at the bottom, but it isn't a link.
• The PortableApps Menu is missing from the compatibility page

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Ryan McCue
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I just found UnDoReg v1.46. Its a cute little programm to undo registry changes.
I havent checked whether it is virus/malware-free or leaves registry itself.(I have linux...)

Just wanted to post a quick note about a recent upgrade. As the techies here know, PortableApps.com uses the Drupal content management system to handle the site, forums and pretty much everything else. I've been working the past week and a half to test the various modules, update the custom PortableApps.com theme and test the overall system to ensure that the upgrade would go smoothly.

You read how Open SOurce software can be freely distrubited and modified, but does anyone know of some? Take firefox for example, only other version Ive heard of is Swiftfox.

Is there a guide out there somewhere? What do I need to know? I was messing around with Portable FireFox, and it seems its made up of just the main program, .nds and .ini's. Im really intrested in this, would like to make my own custom browser

need a good free password program for my usb

Hi all,

I really like the idea of Portable Apps, and have been using Firefox and Thunderbird on my USB stick for a while now. However, I'm starting to think that this method of using external/additional hardware like USB sticks to run your applications is not the future of portable apps. As Google would probably tell you, hosted applications is the way forward, and I agree. I don't want to have to plug in my USB stick, along with all my keys that are attached to it, just to check my email, especially when I don't really want my boss to notice I'm doing it!