[Eug-lug] USB memory stick/U3 support

[Ben Barrett]

Ah, "ssh" and "scp", pico/nano/vi/vim/gvim/emacs/etc.
For SSH and SCP you may want to keep your own statically-linked binaries on
the flash drive,
but if you're really paranoid then you'd want to use a bootable distro of
your own rather than
an unkown/untrusted client system.  Editors are a dime a dozen and subject
to flame wars...
I haven't found a friendly command-line merge tool in open source, anyone
else?
Portable Cygwin might be a good solution for many -- it brings a complete
FOSS toolchain
and user environment to windows; see:
http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/sezer/software/cygwin/
http://www.gdargaud.net/Hack/Windows.html#Cygwin
As for PDF/ODF, OpenOffice will open a variety of legacy formats and uses
some XML
which is Oasis compliant (just don't know if that is ODF specifically), and
as for PDF
I had no luck although I thought I could fill out one as a form recently.

Maybe you can tell us more about what you want, regarding "cross-platform"
-- are
you looking for an identical (or nearly so) user interface?  Something with
the identical
codebase?  Do you need a GUI? (if not, cygwin will rock for you)

cheers,

ben

PS - 1GB should be sufficient for dual copies of a complete useful set of
app binaries,
for example, Firefox/Thunderbird/OpenOffice/etc for both linux and windows.
Beyond that, how much data do you have to use from this thing?  You could
make
a secure network connection for remote storage although it might be too slow
for
some uses... so, how many SSH keys, spreadsheets, PDFs, and text files do
you have?  :)
(you'll lose some overhead on the device to the encryption itself,
 and don't forget to put the encryption clients for both/all platforms
there, in the clear)


On 2/3/07, silverlining2007 at gmail.com <silverlining2007 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ...
> Maybe add a SSH client, SFTP client, text editor and a file merge
> applications to the mix. (on Windoze I use Putty, WinSCP, Notepad ++ and
> WinMerge respectively) What's good on Linux? Or any cross-platform FOSS
> apps
> available that might fit the bill? And also include a PDF and/or ODF
> reader
> (or does Open Office support viewing PDF/ODF docs?).
>
> Would a 1GB stick be sufficient?
> ...
>
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