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- cactus476, on 10/10/2007, -0/+55Ah, this is just BartPE on a thumb drive, not XP.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+37The only reason I use bootable usb oses are for system rescue and general ***** around friends computers.
And XP is a very bad choice for such uses/misuses. Nevertheless, it good to know that it can be done. May come in handy someday. - tugger, on 10/10/2007, -4/+29Sorry, did I miss something here..??
You have windows installed on a machine thats less than 700MB, rather than several gigs..??
..or did you make a n00bie error confusing the size of a windows XP install disk to that of a full XP installation on a drive..?? - msaleem, on 10/10/2007, -14/+39Wow. This is a true representation of how far we've come in recent years. Light OS installations are the new black. This also makes it even more painful to see how bloated Vista is.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16Correction: BSOD.
- AugustZephyr, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12The words ENTIRE and LIGHTWEIGHT do not belong in the same sentence describing an OS.
- yakk0dotorg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10This article is from January 2006. Fresh news FTW.
- jimmoses, on 10/10/2007, -5/+15How do you work that out? Sure some Linux distros come on large disk images, but that invariably includes OpenOffice and a hundred other big apps which don't ship with Windows. Apples and Oranges.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11you didn't miss anything. This person thinks that it just copies the contents of the CD to the HDD as instead of unarchiving it first.
- Eddible, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10You say that about Vista, but XP couldn't fit on a USB drive when it was first released (granted, flash drives weren't as popular back when XP launched) but nevertheless, of course Vista won't fit, it hardly highlights that it is bloated. If that's the case, then OSX must be bloated as well because that isn't running off a USB drive, something I'm sure half the Digg community will be quick to discredit.
- killingthedream, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10I haven't had a BSOD since Win98. What the ***** are you morons doing with your computers?
- XIUgraag, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Damn Russian is a nice ASCII compression
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+14Hasn't BartPE been out for a while now?
This isn't new, and I hate it when people say "this is old", but it really is. Also, it's not even Windows XP, it's a small version of "Windows XP" which is called BartPE, which has very few features like a cd-writer, and command prompt. It's nice to have when you have a problem and you need to get to files if for instance you have boot problems but you're too stupid to know what fixmbr and fixboot are.
But, this isn't Windows XP. - Frezzle, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10lame, go for Damn Small Linux way more options!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Operating systems become bigger as time progresses? Who would have thought? Why not compare previous generations of mac OS with the latest as well. What about Linux?
- Homunculiheaded, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8I think this isn't news simply because the article is 1 1/2 years old.
- yakk0dotorg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Vista even has a version of Windows PE that everyone can use. BartPE was created to emulate the features of the real WinPE when Microsoft introduced it. WinPE 2.0 is pretty nice.
- sysadmin88, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6its not just BartPE - its BartPE with the Windows XPE plugin - very useful but can be slow booting up - much faster on a thumbdrive though
- lexbaby, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6The article is 18 months old! A little outdated for Digg me thinks.
- dubloe7, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6just like you do with AIDS...
- vertigoacid, on 10/10/2007, -4/+10There's more to bloat than simple hard drive space comparisons
- dogsalad, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6No one said anything like that. So you're getting indignant over an imagined instance.
Looks like someone has a case of the Wednesdays. - mahdaeng, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5The article is dated January 2006.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Idiot.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I second that. It seems that linux users (maybe more specifically linux users on digg) and such are comprised of morons who can't use windows without wanting to download a bunch of ***** that messes their system up. Three years on an install of XP, still no problems, no crashing, etc.
Any tool is useful in the hands of intelligent man. - dubloe7, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4there are 3Gb thumb drives?
- dereth13, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Dude... this news is ancient...
- nofrak1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3It would be interesting to do a side-by-side demonstration for people so they could judge between a clean installation of Windows run from a usb stick or live cd, and a live linux distro.
- OBKenobi, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5Vista is a bunch of bloat without any significant improvement in performance or stability. Security is apparently improved, but why wouldn't it be once you remove IE from the kernel?
It is to XP what WinME was to Win98. Only this time MS realized they could extort consumers into buying it by making DX10 Vista-exclusive.
Windows 7 will likely be what Vista was supposed to be. - swazooe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2jacked is just one of many different XP releases made using Nlite another example being TinyXP
- missingnoh4x, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I kind of prefer using thumb drives to boot into Linux on Windows machines, rather than the other way around.
- jessicass, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You beat me to it but yeah, it basically is just BartPE.
- brownspank, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The only time I get the blue screen on XP is when my RAM is failing. So technically, not the OS' fault.
- mahdaeng, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Not bad at only about $30. But wouldn't be more fun to do it yourself?
- dubloe7, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4since you like ubantu and dell, everyone now knows you like teh *****.
- meatmcguffin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2How does BartPE differ from Jacked Core XP? It's really hard to find decent info on both of them
- Excessive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Trinity Rescue Kit ownz at all aspects. Just google for it if you already didn't, it provides hundreds of tools for system recovery and management.
- ScottMaximus1, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3FAIL
- gertin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Print view: http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=177102101
- CCmachined, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1why? Windows is already everywhere. Linux has been bootable from thumb drives for ages, and it's actually useful!
and what do you mean you cant boot windows as a live CD from the disc? like i can to repair my system! haha! - jimmoses, on 10/10/2007, -5/+6It may well be technologically possible to do this with Windows. It may work well. It may be really useful, but unless Microsoft change their licensing restrictions, it's ILLEGAL - a breach of your EULA.
This is why Linux trumps Windows for cool hacks - not because it's easier to do technically, but because the Linux user has the freedom to do it without asking permission first. - OwdenBowden, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Look for something called Portable Apps - it is stuff that you can place on a thumb drive and run off of the thumb drive. I do remember seeing Spy Bot on the list of apps
- sirhomer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Windows Vista Freshly Installed = 10.8 GB
Ubuntu Linux 7.04 = 1.62 GB
'Nuff said. - spaceball5000, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1$30 !! My gasoline costs me more than that every time I fill up my Honda. SWEET DEAL
- naonao, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1This is ancient. I've used this millions of times.
- dubloe7, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2actually, im pretty sure that i could fit vista on my 8Gb thumb drive if i wanted to. when xp came out the most you could get was a 32 or 64Mb thumb drive.
the main reason vista is considered bloated is absurdly high memory use. - Eddible, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Which isn't even that high anyway. I run it on a single gig of RAM and it runs seamlessly.
- somegeologist, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3So, I like ice cream.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2If you work in an environment where THE ONLY OS allowed is a MS OS, then BartPE and things like this are life savers. I agree that something like Ubuntu or Knoppix is nice, but if you want to easily authenticate to an Active Directory domain, and run common windows based utilities and applications (ghost, virus scan, spyware scan etc.) then this is the way to go.
- Moduliz0r, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1@Eddible: Actually OSX86 can be run from a USB flash drive, 2GB+ ones.
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