Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> However, the idea of being able to just plug in a USB stick and click an 
> icon and instantly have a complete Linux environment set up exactly the 
> way I want it is... pretty neat, actually. It's like I can just put my 
> life on a USB stick, keep it in my pocket, and never again find myself 
> sat at a PC that lacks a development environment. Haskell EVERYWHERE! >:-D
> 
> Only trouble is... it would have to be a pretty damned big USB stick. 
> DSL is nice, but rather minimal. (Shocker.) KNOPPIX is 700 MB 
> compressed, and decompresses to something like 4 GB...

...The *other* thing I've often wanted to try is making a bootable USB 
flash drive. But apparently that's really hard. And besides, a virtual 
Linux environment has certain advantages. (E.g., you can use the local 
HD if you want.)

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