Request Apps

What about Abilon? http://www.abilon.org/

It saves news and memories somewhere on the local computer but it doesn't need any setup. I would call it half portable.

call me nuts, but is there any chance of getting that on a usb stick.

if not, what's there to prevent it from being portable?

ps. i know about DSL and flashlinux

How about one? I have seen one called HJ-Zip, but it really stinks. I knwo it is probbaly not possible to do WinZip, but maybe one of the open source ones.

As soon as it's available for Windows in early 2006. This would be a killer portable applications!

Others have asked for portable versions of music players (i.e., foobar, winamp, QMP) and some of these have been misquoted as "open source" rather than closed source freeware.

I would like to suggest musikCube (http://musikcube.com/) as an open source, media library based, music player worthy and available for changes to the source code to make it portable. It uses BASS libraries and SQL Lite database and is very lightweight and fast. Currently it takes a multi-user approach, saving settings in a users "My Documents" folder. It also currently does not allow for relative path specification to synchronize its media library with. Many at the musikCube forums have requested such a feature.

There isn't really any conversion necessary here -- these are just very useful, already more or less portable, apps that my team bundles internally in our workgroup along with the PortableSuite... not sure about the licensing suitability for making them formally a part of the Portable Suite though.

PuTTY - secure shell client -- has a stand alone, no install version that works from any directory and stores its config's in the directory where it is run from
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

WinSCP - secure copy (scp) / secure FTP client -- stand alone, no install version that works from any directory and stores its config's in the directory where it is run from

Hello. I was wondering if anyone knew of any open source or freeware virtualization programs for ANY windows platform 98se or higher. (an x86 emulator to be precise.) bochs is too slow and i want something to run off a portable usb2 harddrive. any suggestions would be welcome, and if its not possible at this time, no big deal. i work with many different OS's in my classes, and this would be very helpful for homework, and when i cant get lab time while at school, (just hit the open lab (WinXP only, or the library[also winxp only]). Thanks for any help.

Since somebodies asking about a portable Visual Basic, what about a portable C/C++ compiler. DevC++ from www.bloodshed.net is one of the best free C/C++ IDE package. And it's not that hard to make DevC++ into a portable package.

For ease, I put it in a NSIS package which unpacks the compiler, run its, and then waits for it to close so the files can be remove. Works perfectly, all I have to do now is make the NSIS package load registry settings from a file, and when the compiler closes, hopefully save any changed registry settings for DevC++ back to that file.

The IDE is opensource, so there's not reason it can't be edited to load/save it's settings from a file, or that a portable version similar to the one I'm currently using can be made.

I would love to see a portable version of a recent release of WinAmp. I hate having to install it on every machine I get on.

If this can't be done at least a portable music player that isn't Windows Media Player that supports m3u playlists and network drives.

Thanks

I think Slax(http://slax.linux-live.org/) is a good choice.