QEMU-Puppy

QEMU-Puppy is an OS and a set of applications on a USB memory stick. This OS can be booted natively, or on top of an other, already installed, OS. Just borrow a PC, boot your own environment and return the PC unaffected.



Once upon a time, I realized that having your data on a USB memory stick wasn't exactly what I wanted. I wanted more. Carrying your files is nice. Carrying your applications as well would be even better. What the heck, carrying your OS and even your own machine on your memory stick would be the best!

If you have your files on your memory stick, you can take any machine and access those files. Being able to handle the files, depends on the installed software. If you don't want to depend on the installed software, you can put your own software on the memory stick as well. But most of the software needs to be installed, which is not easy, or possible, or desirable, or allowed on a lot of machines. You don't want to pollute a machine you borrowed... Having a complete OS at hand, including applications and files would take away these constraints. Just put everything on a USB memory stick and boot from it.

So I took Puppy Linux, tweaked the boot script and, voila, QEMU-Puppy was born:

http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/qemupuppy/index.html∞

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ErikVeenstra

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