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Well I'm not a huge Ubuntu fan but I run Linux on a pen drive as my (main) personal OS now and couldn't recommend it more.

Anyone else (programmers?) use a portable USB OS? How long before this is the norm?

Isn't that rather slow?

Umm kinda depends.

If you have 1001 apps open (especially ones that hammer the filesystem) then yes.

Mine I use for programming & email so I have maybe 10 apps open maximum and it runs perfectly fine.

Saving is a little slow but not hugely noticeable :)

I've run Ubuntu 8.04 off a 8GB OZ Rally since it was released, like a LiveCD. It's plenty fast, save for the booting delay while it looks for /dev/fd0 and such. I keep trying to find the time to customize it so I can skip that, and reloading all my programs every time I reboot, but it's so easy to do that my inertia hasn't yet been overcome.

This is talking about "portable" as in "carry it around with you", i.e. thumb drives.

Not running Ubuntu on PowerPC.

:(

Can't you easily make this yourself? Does anyone know of a good tutorial for doing this?

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