On Tuesday 05 May 2009, Derek Smithies wrote: > Hi, > I have been down the usb linux stick thing for a while, and some > thoughts might help the search for a recommendation. > > If you can avoid a distro that uses a compressed file system, loading > files (or running binaries) of the disk will be much faster.. > yes, it means a bigger flash disk. No problem.. 4G disks are getting > cheap. > > Getting a machine with a nvidia/ATI graphics card is quite common - it > would be nice if the ATI & nvidia drivers were already on the disk. > Yes, I know, there will be those who want only open source software on > their linux distro disk. However, it fails the simple test from the > children. They expect to plug it in, and it works immediately. > Everything. (which includes the codecs). True, the standard answer is > to download the drivers and install them. But each time I run the usb > image, I don't want to have to install the graphics driver.. That is > too tedious. > > So lets avoid the discussion on embedding nvidia&ati into the image. > From a convenience point of view, all the video drivers, and all the > codecs, should be in the image. > > Remastering should be easy. There are always going to be packages that > have to be added/removed. > > On those three quite reasonable requirements, what is best option? > > Derek. >
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