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http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/10/21/176235.shtml?tid=93&tid=158

Yet another distro to be released based on DSL and gemu put on a USB stick.

From the article:
"Looks like an online privacy company, Metropipe, are planning to release a secure linux virtual privacy machine that runs from a USB stick. The image contains a pre-release of their new 'Metropipe Tunneler' product and also contains Firefox, and Thunderbird with the Enigmail/gpg extension. Looks like the whole thing is based on damnsmalllinux and uses qemu to boot on Windows or Linux without any installation or configuration. Very interesting use of qemu and damnsmalllinux, and all 100% GPL."

What is gemu?

Quote (Max @ Oct. 21 2004,15:15)

Sweet...to bad there isnt a Screenie!!!!!!

Brian
AwPhuch

Interesting concept. Seems that is "becomes an icon" on the desktop of exising host OS and boots from there. So no bios booting issues? You have to be running Windows ( or Linux ). Hopefully this will lead to "our version" of "embrace and extinguish" Windows.

I just booted it on a laptop, sorry, only thing I have with Windows. It is old, 550Mhz, 256Mb, IBM Thinkpad running Windows XP. There is a qemu-win.bat file that you can double-click and yes, it loads and boots DSL v0.8.2 with some myDSL extensions. For my machine, it is very slow. For those with monster machines, you may see acceptable performance.

as they say in the entertainment biz, "there's no such thing as bad press", especially when it's good press!

woo-hoo for bringing in more users to the DSL party!!!

Oh, and GO VOTE!!!

-J.P.

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