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[desh]

I just installed Firefox to my USB thumb drive to use at work on my Win98/dialup computer tomorrow. We'll see how it goes. I could've just put the installer on the drive and installed it for real on the computer tomorrow, but if this works, it's a big step toward better usability on friends' computers and such.

If I liked Linux more, I'd make myself an entire CD- or DVD-based install of one of those smaller distros, and just boot that when I need to use a friend's computer. That would be neat. Though less writable. And more likely to freak out the friend.

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[flyinbutrs.livejournal.com]

If your thumbdrive is 256 megs or larger, I'd go with Slax... slackware's liveCD. I have it installed on my thumbdrive, it autosaves my home/desktop directories, and it's nice and modular, so adding software is as easy as popping a new module into the modules folder. and booting off USB is fast as shit. Although older computers don't like it so much... sad...

Also, at some point I had a guide for how to tweak firefox to run faster off a thumbdrive... I'll see if I can dig it up for you.

[flyinbutrs.livejournal.com]

Found it!

http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000580021910/

[desh]

Dude, that's awesome. I'll DL and install it tonight.

[conana.livejournal.com]

Knoppix is pretty popular; Debian on a CD, seems to Just Work on many computers.