Oh, I'd probably look at this:
http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS6805529669.html
http://linuxmobile.sourceforge.net/
or this:
http://slax.linux-live.org/
or this:
http://www.fingergear.com/
or this:
http://linuxgazette.net/113/kapil.html
So, its been done before, and now you can probably 'demo' it to your
investors tomorrow. :-)
But back to HOSEF. This might make a nice HOSEF "gimmie". I know
you can get fairly large thumb drives pretty cheap in OEM quantities,
and we could have the HOSEF logo silk-screen on the side. In fact
most of the new-fangled computers in the laps in Hawaii's schools
will boot a USB drive.
Over here at Netgate I'm looking at putting Xen on a flash drive with
linux in dom0, and then allowing other OS instances to migrate to and
from the USB drive. Basically you would save the state of your OS
session to the USB key, and then "resume" it later, on a completely
different machine. This should be relatively straight-forward with
linux, MacOS X (mach), freebsd (and the other BSDs), but WinXP will
likely take a bit more work.
Cause, ya know, Xen boots (unmodified) WinXP now:
http://news.com.com/Xen+passes+Windows+milestone/
2100-7344_3-5842265.html
On Sep 18, 2005, at 7:05 AM, Andrew Maddox wrote:
So, not so hypothetically speaking, if you were going to customize
a Linux kernel-based OS distro to run on, oh, let's say a 512MB or
1GB USB device of some sort, and wanted to add onto that the
libraries and drivers you'd need to run a user-friendly desktop and
a basic suite of office applications, how would you go about it?
Heh. I know. This is what people charge multiple 100s of dollars
per hour to advise customers on. But I have an idea, inspired by a
business contact, that would involve work like this. Basic OS + as-
close-as-possible-to-M$-compatible office apps + whatever specific
customization each customer might need, small enough to boot and
run off said generic USB thingie...
Think there's a market for it (with this, a client could tell field
sales reps etc. to use any ol' laptop, just take this here USB
device to do work stuff on)? Think it's feasible? Let me know!
Some gents I know have a business proposition that this is a very
rough outline of, and I'm working out what questions to ask them to
figure out how serious they are, how likely it is to work, how well
they've really checked out the market (I'd be the integration &
development guy, they'd do the marketing, get the production done,
etc.), and other niceties.
First time I'd have a contract like that, my previous consulting
has all been pretty standard "fix our network and maintain it for
us, bill us monthly, we'll pay you $X/hour"...
And yes, I'm asking my local SAGE group, we're chatting it over,
but there's a lot of knowledge on LUAU I'd like to tap into if I
can...
Laters,
ND
--
Andrew Maddox, madsox squiggle radix point net
I will not do anything bad ever again
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