Make your desktop portable
Posted January 29 2008 1:45 pm by kobewan
Tags: linux, portable
Have you ever wanted to carry your full desktop settings over across multiple computers? Maybe you’ve had one too many family members ask you to fix their crashed computers and you need a swiss-army knife of tools for the future, or maybe you just want to run the applications you like on your work laptop without installing anything. No matter what the reason, putting a persistent Linux install on any USB drive is now not only possible, but also simple. Pendrivelinux.com has step-by-step instructions on how to do it with a number of the biggest distros out today, including Ubuntu, Knoppix, Gentoo, PCLinuxOS and more. It has instructions for installing from Windows, Linux or even off of a CD. To top it all off, it even has a guide on how to run Linux off a USB drive without installing anything, by creating a virtual machine in qemu.
Best results will probably be achieved with a 2GB or bigger flashdrive. And, as always, try at your own risk.