General Discussion

Hi. I would like to use PortableApps at work, but there are some apps out there, that have a license restriction for personal/home use only. Is there some way to know if it is legal to use that app, except of rechecking every app's license?

Our PortableApps.com Drupal install has now been moved to a new server setup. This is why the site was set to maintenance mode for a few minutes a little over an hour ago and why it's been read-only for the past hour and a half. Everything should be up and running again, though search results will take a while to repopulate. I wanted to see if anyone is having any other issues now that it has been moved.

Seems to be a virtual OS, based on win32, might have origins in OS2 or 4-5 other winclones types.

How secure is it?

Is it running with 65000 open ports ?
Is it like wine - not a full OS but an emulator?
Perhaps it is only running when an app is running?
Is it an OS that a hacker can get into?
Is it an OS that a hacker can requst information on its type so as to identify it and know what to do?

PortableApps Chrome won't update, directly through the browser: I get "Update failed (error: 1)". And the via the PortableApps platform won't find the outdated Chrome and prompt for the update.

Suggestions?

The only thing that has worked is downloading the .paf.exe file and manually updating each Chrome in place. I don't have this issue with any other portable apps...

I have a portable version of Chromium on my USB drive, I'm specifically using the XChromium version.

This is working absolutely great, there is a black branded theme and a proxy application included.

Often if I try this USB drive on some of my test PCs then Avast (or probably any other AV client) will try to install a browser extension.

I'd like to to prevent it from installing any other extensions. This product will be used by folks with limited IT knowledge (and English) and I want to minimise complexity.

I just had a thought: what about a PortableApps.com OS? I know it's crazy but I think it would be interesting to see how that would go. Even if it is impossible, it's a good idea to ponder.

.894597=%ALLUSERSAPPDATA%

The file did move but did not show up in (All Users\Application Data) therefore the application could not find it and wouldn't start.

Thanks.

Where would one find listings or a directory of PortableApps that are available, other than the free and open source apps listed here?

I noticed the other day that Ultra Edit has a version available for the PortableApps platform... I would imagine there are other products out there too, but can't seem to find a list of them.... if there is such a thing.

Anyone?

ReactOS has recently started the "ReactOS Open Source Support Program".
Tell the Developer(s) of your favourite Open Source Software. Software in this program will be provided "extra attention" to ensure that they are working (and continue to work) on ReactOS. Also they will be listed in ReactOS Community Edition's "Setup App Manager", which will "allow software to be pre-staged in an installation image", and Note: "The service is free to all software under a free or open source license and is intended to help provide wider audiences to such programs."

Did FreeOTFE and FreeOTFE Explorer used to be on the app section of this website?

Thank you.

Steve Bolton