On the subject of bootsticks (and yet changing the subject slightly to avoid any further potentially incriminating asides!) we kicked around the idea of 'The BBC ona Stick' a few years ago- a Bootable USB drive running a custom Linux install (BeeBuntu!?) with an integrated DTV tuner. The whole thing would look like a slightly fatter version of the Haupage USB tv tuners. As an idea it had a host of wonderful benefits, and almost as many potential drawbacks- delivering OS environments to the masses, getting extended use out of older PCs, potentially further energising the OS development community, allowing integration of TV and internet platforms far earlier, and with the potential for far more flexible exploitation, than.. um, you know, other stuff that might happen.
Anyway it never got further than a few presentations and some interesting talks, but I thought it worth sharing, a On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Kevin Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Ant Miller <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Overall very impressive- there are some in the gleaming cueb who go >> further and tote a bootable ubuntu usb stick round with them (heh!). > > I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about Ant. ;-) I suggest it > highly for anyone who needs to get some work done with a computer at work. > And Jaunty is a definite step up for anyone wanting to do this. > Pendrivelinux.com has a handy guide to creating a boot CD if you don't have > access to the bios to boot from a USB stick. > > best, > k > > Kevin Anderson > > > > -- Ant Miller tel: 07709 265961 email: [email protected] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
