networkworld.com — If you're a Linux desktop user and are forced to use someone's Windows machine, the experience may be more on par with borrowing a toothbrush.To guard against this potential unpleasantness, it's time you looked into putting a bootable Linux desktop image on a portable USB key chain drive.
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umbriagoAug 1, 2006
Forced? At gunpoint? If you're so much of a elitist you can't bring yourself to use for five minutes an OS everyone else manages to use without having their heads explode, don't get near my computer.
rhymevigilanteAug 1, 2006
And when you do sit down at my computer don't bother saving anything I was working on, or if possible overwrite, make changes and then save so either way I lose everything I was working on when you sat down. The internet is a series of tubes, not a dumptruck, you don't adjust the seat and mirrors when you sit down for a minute.
naio21Aug 1, 2006
@spyrochaete: "Welcome to the world of Linux! You're only 7 directories, 4 conf files, 38 dependencies, a swap drive resize, 12 hours of searching for drivers, an fsck, and an updated kernel away from logging in!"Bwahahahahahahahah! :-D
spyrochaeteAug 1, 2006
That's amazing! The iPod worked fine after you modified the MBR??
jimthetaffAug 1, 2006
apt-get install windows Sorry, dependancies not satisfied, please install these dependancies first...sassermsblastother trojanother virusesspywareadware keyloggerWGAWGA validation***Warning*** this package has been compiled from source that is 80% broken and as such will require critical security updates daily, continue? (reccommended)Installing.....Windows Genuine Advantage has detected that your copy of windows came with your pc (is an oem copy) and has decided that you are a pirate. $300 please, aarrg.[pays $300]booting....Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer, re-install windows........................Windows has recovered from a serious error, please install Linux to avoid seeing this type of s**t ever again
markus123Aug 1, 2006
".......................Windows has recovered from a serious error, please install Linux to avoid seeing this type of s**t ever again"Yes... you never will see errors on Linux, it'll just crash and then fail to boot into the operating system again without having to reconfigure 50% of the configuration files.
chrisabrahamAug 1, 2006
Well, it is really not their computer, is it -- only their hardware...
seanmacSep 3, 2006
Where's a program where I can put my USB key in my computer in windows, click a couple buttons, and boom I have a bootable linux flash drive. I don't want to mess around with any of this crap.I guess a verbose guide would do. Anyone got one of those?