Dan, thanks for the Mandriva power pack suggestion. I've been using PortableApps on my thumbdrive, but I think it's Windows based, although some of the app's are crossplatform.<br><br>Todd, No I meant various flavors of linux, but the NIXOS sounds interesting.<br><br><b><i><br></i></b><blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><lancepickett00@yahoo.com><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 22:04:32 -0500<br>From: "Dan Hockey" <icepuck2k@mchsi.com><br>Subject: RE: [Cialug] portable USB app's challenge<br>To: "'Central Iowa Linux Users Group'" <cialug@cialug.org><br>Message-ID: <20070516030446.D05AA856A@www.cialug.org><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br>Mandriva power pack edition has no problems with my cf/sd cards, usb thumb<br>drive or ipod. It works with the a,b,g, intel card in my Toshiba just fine.<br><br>On the software side of things you might want to
try<br>http://portableapps.com/ I think some one on this list suggested this a<br>while back. Just for grins and giggles I installed it(under window$) on my<br>60gb ipod video and it worked. It works ok as long it's a usb 2.0 device. I<br>don't think you'll be able to do everything you want to do, but give a try<br>anyway. Hope this helps.<br><br>-dh <br><br> <br><br> _____ <br>\<http: us.rd.yahoo.com="" evt="48256/*http:/travel.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTFhN2hu<br"><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 3<br>Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 23:47:01 -0500<br>From: "Todd Walton" <tdwalton@gmail.com><br>Subject: [Cialug] NixOS<br>To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug@cialug.org><br>Message-ID:<br> <e1d8c6520705152147l5aed4c3exbef50d1c1a6a29da@mail.gmail.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed<br><br>On 5/15/07, LancePickett00 <lancepickett00@yahoo.com> wrote:<br>> That probably means multiple OS's (Windoze, Nix, Live-CD's, Mac),
in use.<br><br>I'm assuming you don't mean that she'll be using NixOS...<br><br>NixOS: http://nix.cs.uu.nl/nixos/<br>=================================<br>NixOS is a Linux distribution based on Nix, a purely functional<br>package management system. NixOS is an experiment to see if we can<br>build an operating system in which software packages, configuration<br>files, boot scripts and the like are all managaed in a purely<br>functional way, that is, they are all built by deterministic functions<br>and they never change after they have been built. Such an operating<br>system should have all the nice characteristics that the Nix package<br>manager has:<br><br>== The entire system — kernel, system services, configuration files,<br>etc. — is built by a Nix expression in a deterministic and repeatable<br>way.<br>== Since configuration changes are non-destructive (they don't<br>overwrite existing files), you can easily roll back to a previous<br>configuration. For instance, the
Grub boot menu in NixOS allows the<br>user to boot into any previous system configuration that hasn't been<br>garbage collected yet. This is very nice if something goes wrong.<br>== Upgrading a configuration is as safe as installing from scratch,<br>since the realisation of a configuration is not stateful. This is a<br>result of being purely functional.<br>== Multi-user package management — any user can install software<br>through the same mechanisms that the administrator uses. This is not<br>the case for most package managers such as RPM.<br>=================================<br><br>It sounds very interesting. It seems to make sense. There's lots of<br>docs on the website.<br><br>-todd<br><br></lancepickett00@yahoo.com></e1d8c6520705152147l5aed4c3exbef50d1c1a6a29da@mail.gmail.com></cialug@cialug.org></tdwalton@gmail.com></http:></cialug@cialug.org></icepuck2k@mchsi.com></lancepickett00@yahoo.com></blockquote><br><BR><BR>Thanks,<br>Lance<p> 
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