Mobile Hard Drive Carries Linux

KingFishKingFish
edited August 2004 in Science & Tech
Peripheral maker LaCie released on Thursday a mobile hard drive loaded with MandrakeSoft's version of the Linux operating system.
The GlobeTrotter device, with Mandrakelinux 10.0, can be plugged into the USB port of any PC to turn it into a Linux desktop, without any modifications to the host PC. GlobeTrotter can store up to 40GB of data, including applications and personal settings. The software includes productivity suite OpenOffice.org and the integrated personal information management suites KDE Kontact and Novell Evolution. "The existing (market) was lacking a device capable of carrying a full work environment but (that) is not a computer in itself," Francois Bancilhon, CEO of MandrakeSoft, said in a statement. "GlobeTrotter is just that device."
*cough* Knoppix *cough* -KF

Source: ZDNet

Comments

  • EMTEMT Seattle, WA Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    Cool idea.
  • SputnikSputnik Worcester, MA
    edited August 2004
    i like the comment KF...

    only problem with this is you do need to modify the bios to boot from USB, which not all machines can do last i checked
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited August 2004
    I'm still trying to figure out how to boot off my flash drive >_< so yeah, I agree.
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