Running an application through Ubuntu

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Wednesday 07 June 2006 20:07, "nitin goel" <ngoel78 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am Flinders Uni student studying IT. Under my project, I am developing an
> application. The requirement of the application is that it should run
> without any installation on user side. Since my application has lot of
> data, I waat to have use small applications.
>
> I have heard that with Linux, you can make a CD that can run without
> installation. Can I somehow, create my application in Linux and then burn
> it to a CD or DVD and it can run without any installation. Software, I
> might need is support for Java, some server mayy Apache or some XQuery
> processor.

You most certainly can. That is what free software [1] is all about :)

Software like mklivecd [2] allow you to create a LiveCD [3] containing the 
software that you want. You should be careful of the legalities of 
distributing the software in question. Anything you can find in the default 
repositories of a distro like Debian or Ubuntu (like Apache) should be fine. 
I believe that Sun's Java Runtime Environment recently gained a licence to 
allow it to be distributed with GNU/Linux distros, but you'd be best off 
verifying that.


[1] If you are unfamiliar with the true meaning of this term, see
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software
[2] http://livecd.berlios.de/
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livecd


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