[LUAU] on-topic, finally!

[Jim Thompson]

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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