Request Apps

I don't know if this is possible since I am not a programmer, but I have thought for a long time that it would be great if someone would develop an OS that runs from a flash drive. What I would like to see is a platform that would possibly autorun when the drive is plugged in and list the portable apps located on the drive in a virtual "Desktop". I know the U3 launchpad drives have been released, but I don't own one, and I think it would be great to have an alternative. Besides, from what I understand, you are required to purchase much of the portable software, and many free applications are not compatible with it yet.

John,

I noticed no links under the image viewers and would like to make a suggestion for a link to a free image viewer application that is already portable. You should drop those guys a line and see if they mind you linking to their page.

http://www.xnview.com

The application is very well written and can do limited image manipulation. Far better than Irfanview in my opinion. (No, I don't work for xnview, just glad to see such a beautiful peice of work made available to all).

Both are open source and frequently usedSo it would be easy to make a portable version, right? 

I think you should make Quintessential portable because it is pretty small and requires hardly any CPU so it would be fairly easy to make portable.

Greetings, I have been thoroughly enjoying pocket GAIM and pocket pocket Firefox; very good ideas.
I'm not sure how possible it would be, but perhaps a portable version of The GIMP could be made?

For Windows users, this is essential - a portable antivirus + antispyware program.

There are a few free antivirus programs, like AVG (http://free.grisoft.com/) and ClamWin (http://free.grisoft.com/), but they're not packaged for portable use.