Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

[Xen]

Brendan Perrine schreef op 06-10-2016 23:54:
> On Wed, 05 Oct 2016 14:49:21 +0200
> Xen <list at xenhideout.nl> wrote:
> 
>> might not even be a problem.
> I honestly wonder why you need to run programs off a usb stick. I
> remember even when I was a windows users thinking why do I need that.
> I have run entire installed systems off an external hard drive but not
> one program.

http://portableapps.com

You can basically install thousands of programs into an encrypted 
container if you want and place it on usb stick.

Every program that is available for free basically has a portable 
edition.

This means that instantly your email, for example, is not only portable, 
but also secure. You have your entire work environment on a stick 
without requiring it to be a complete system. Hence it is a plug-in 
thing that you can plug into your computer and get started. Then you 
take it with you to someone else's computer and get started. It's that 
easy.

This doesn't have to be on a stick, but it can be an internal harddrive 
partition as well, or some external harddisk if you want. Then you just 
sync the internal partition to a stick and you have a copy to go if you 
want. Mostly for me it was about data, not applications, on the stick, 
but I had the applications inside a crypt container. The kinds of 
applications that keep their own database then also have the database 
inside the container. It's a completely localized version of everything 
whereas in Linux mostly everything is always dispersed across the 
system. That's all. The only 'downside' is that windows keeps traces of 
files you access and folder locations you access in some registry 
location. You'd really have to constantly wipe that clean, 
automatically. But apart from that, you can just put a hidden volume 
inside the crypt container and put other junk that you also use (or a 
copy of it) onto the outer volume.

A pretty feel-good system I must say. But anyway.