Ah, "ssh" and "scp", pico/nano/vi/vim/gvim/emacs/etc. For SSH and SCP you may want to keep your own statically-linked binaries on the flash drive, but if you're really paranoid then you'd want to use a bootable distro of your own rather than an unkown/untrusted client system. Editors are a dime a dozen and subject to flame wars... I haven't found a friendly command-line merge tool in open source, anyone else? Portable Cygwin might be a good solution for many -- it brings a complete FOSS toolchain and user environment to windows; see: http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/sezer/software/cygwin/ http://www.gdargaud.net/Hack/Windows.html#Cygwin As for PDF/ODF, OpenOffice will open a variety of legacy formats and uses some XML which is Oasis compliant (just don't know if that is ODF specifically), and as for PDF I had no luck although I thought I could fill out one as a form recently.
Maybe you can tell us more about what you want, regarding "cross-platform" -- are you looking for an identical (or nearly so) user interface? Something with the identical codebase? Do you need a GUI? (if not, cygwin will rock for you) cheers, ben PS - 1GB should be sufficient for dual copies of a complete useful set of app binaries, for example, Firefox/Thunderbird/OpenOffice/etc for both linux and windows. Beyond that, how much data do you have to use from this thing? You could make a secure network connection for remote storage although it might be too slow for some uses... so, how many SSH keys, spreadsheets, PDFs, and text files do you have? :) (you'll lose some overhead on the device to the encryption itself, and don't forget to put the encryption clients for both/all platforms there, in the clear) On 2/3/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
... 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? ...
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