[sf-lug] Portable Unix anyone?

[aaronco36]

Quoting Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> from [1]:
> Well Have You Always Wanted To Run Unix On Every Computer
> you came across?
> So we have NomadBSD_1.3 which is a widely portable install
> to USB Flash Drive.

FWIW, there is additional NomadBSD overview info at its Distrowatch page 
[2] and at the Distrowatch release announcement news item [3].

OTOH, and mentioned here as a reminder, this subject matter has 
essentially been repeated from less than 8 months ago with the bottom-half 
of Bobbie S's April 29th posting 'SF-LUG meets Sunday May 5, 2019 -- Linux 
and Unix, it is all FOSS even Unix On a Stick!'starting with *But how 
about a Unix on a Stick.*; see reference [4]

Following Bobbie S's April 29th "Unix On a Stick!" posting, there was some 
back-and-forth between Bobbie S and Rick M over the use of USB flash 
drives within the thread entitled 'USB 3.0 Flash Drives - Penguin shaped 
and others'; see references [5], [6] and [7].
And as some/many/most of you folks might remember, Rick M concluded his 
last posting of that thread with the following primarily addressed to 
Bobbie S; directly quoting Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> from [7]:
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... I didn't mean that _you personally_ hadn't picked an OS and done a 
real installation rather than incessantly tire-kicking distributions 
live-booted from flash drives.  Yes, I'm aware that you have PCLinuxOS 
installed, and am delighted that you're happy with it.

What I was commenting on was your focussing primarily and increasingly on 
live distros booted from flash drives, in your offerings to SF-LUG. What I 
was saying is that this mode of deployment portrays Linux badly because of 
dreadfully bad mass-storage performance, and that the running system 
cannot be reasonably maintained and expanded, hence the user doesn't 
really experience a representative system, just a limited but working 
model of one.  That has very slow disc reads.  ;->

It's the difference between tourism and living somewhere.  And, what I was 
saying is that an installed system running in a VM is, unlike a live 
distro booted from a flash drive, a real and realistic Linux system, that 
a user can try out and see how things go without having to devote an 
entire computer to it.
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-A

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REFERENCES
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[1]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2019q4/014480.html
[2]https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=nomadbsd
[3]https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=10761
[4]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2019q2/014058.html
[5]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2019q2/014061.html
[6]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2019q2/014062.html
[7]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2019q2/014063.html
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aaronco36 at sdf.org
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