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CVS/SVN Client

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Submitted by Rob Loach on December 30, 2005 - 11:46am

I've been using SmartCVS and SmartSVN from my USB key and although they do work, they arn't truly portable (requires Java and doesn't save settings in the application directory).

Does anyone have any recommendation for CVS and SVN clients that can run from a USB key?

Lexi

Submitted by justin on December 28, 2005 - 3:06pm

Here is a link to a word processor I found over at Sourceforge. It seems to rely on Java, so I don't know if it will work on a portable drive. It says tht it is OS independent, so it should work on Windows. I don't know much about it, but it might work. http://sourceforge.net/projects/lexi

Portable OS

Submitted by bluefoxicy on December 27, 2005 - 4:20pm

It'd be interesting to make a full portable OS setup. This could support booting a disk or CD image through qemu or syslinux. For a typical USB stick or hard disk, this can be done via syslinux on the MBR or such; for an iPod, you simply have to remember to hit the second partition with your bootloader.

Consider first that the iPod has two partitions, both flagged as bootable. The first partition will be ignored because it's not bootable on PC; the second, however, will be booted. For this, we can syslinux the second partition rather than the MBR on the iPod.

pspad editor

Submitted by azjerry on December 23, 2005 - 5:28pm

I use pspad as my main text/programmers editor and am very happy with it. On a whim I copied the install directory to my USB drive and now am able to use pspad at work. I've found no issues with it in portable mode.

SQL Query Tool - Any Recommendations ?

Submitted by RossGoodman on December 22, 2005 - 9:22am

Hi

Can anyone recommend a:

generic,
free,
open source
and preferably portable

SQL Query tool that can connect to ideally:

Oracle
SQL Server
MySQL

I understand that true portability will be limited as the middleware and configuration will have to be on the desktop, but it would be nice to just plug and play in the same way that I do with my other apps.

Ross

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