This sounds like a good project. Maybe add a SSH client, SFTP client, text editor and a file merge applications to the mix. (on Windoze I use Putty, WinSCP, Notepad ++ and WinMerge respectively) What's good on Linux? Or any cross-platform FOSS apps available that might fit the bill? And also include a PDF and/or ODF reader (or does Open Office support viewing PDF/ODF docs?).
Would a 1GB stick be sufficient? Would like to do this to support W2K SP4 & Ubuntu (I assume a USB flash drive can be mounted when running Ubuntu Live CD?) Any good resources on the web on how to configure/install/utilize open-source applications on a USB memory stick/flash drive? And looking out in the future USB wireless/Bluetooth/UWB flash drive support would be good ;-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Barrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 8:33 PM Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] USB memory stick/U3 support A nice idea to implement with something like TrueCrypt, I think, would be to have "portable" versions of Firefox, OpenOffice, Thunderbird, etc, in both linux and windows versions, and further, have them setup to share the bookmarks file and mail folders... anyone? (seems like it might've been done already, maybe without TrueCrypt... I had a nice dual-boot Thunderbird setup back when it wasn't as easy to setup :) ben On 2/3/07, Ben Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you reformat, or have a regular old (non-U3) USB storage device, you > might > want to check into http://www.truecrypt.org/ if you want an encrypted area > that you can use from both linux and windows.... > Blogspot ran a nice little review last August: > http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/08/disk-encryption-tools-for-linux-and.html > (if linux-only, you may want LUKS, dm-crypt, or CryptoFS, among other > choices) > > ben > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
