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POSIX IO Must Die! POSIX IO is becoming a serious impediment to IO performance and scaling. POSIX is one of the standards that enabled portable programs and POSIX IO is the portion of the standard surrounding IO. But as the world of storage evolves with greatly increasing capacities and greatly increasing performance, it is time for POSIX IO to evolve or die.

Portable Windows Media streaming client with a footprint of 368K. It lets you download, store and manage files in .WMV, .WMA, .WMX and many other rich media formats. You can use it with Windows or Linux.

XPDF is an open source viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called 'Acrobat' files, from the name of Adobe's PDF software.) The Xpdf project also includes a PDF text extractor, PDF-to-PostScript converter, and various other utilities. Xpdf runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2. The non-X components (pdftops, pdftotext, etc.) also run on Win32 systems

netboot.me is a service that allows you to boot nearly any operating system or utility on any computer with a wired internet connection - without having to know ahead of time what you'll want to boot. Once you can netboot.me, you never need to update your boot disk again! In order for your computer to know where to find the netboot servers, you need to change your DHCP settings to return some extra information. The two relevant pieces of information: next-server, which should be "tftp.netboot.me", and "filename", which should be "netbootme.kpxe". How to set these settings depends on your DHCP server. For dhcpd, simply add the following to the relevant 'subnet' section of your configuration: next-server "tftp.netboot.me" filename "netbootme.kpxe" For dnsmasq, the following line in /etc/dnsmasq.conf will achieve the same effect: dhcp-boot=netbootme.kpxe,tftp.netboot.me netboot.me works through the magic of netbooting. There are a number of ways to boot a computer with netboot.me. The simplest is to download a bootable image and burn it to a CD, USB memory stick, or floppy disk. Boot off it on any networked computer, and it will automatically fetch the latest boot options from netboot.me and let you choose from dozens of installation, recovery, testing, portable desktop and other tools. You can also start netboot.me from any computer running gPXE, or from any netbootable computer with some simple tweaks to your DHCP server.

QEMU-Puppy is an OS and a set of applications on a USB memory stick. This OS can be booted natively, or on top of an other, already installed, OS. Just borrow a PC, boot your own environment and return the PC unaffected.

El cd en vivo de Sugar on a Stick (Sugar para Pendrive) es un excelente medio que funciona sin necesidad de instalarlo o modificar el contenido del disco duro y con la capacidad de guardar tanto los trabajos como las actividades descargadas en el pendrive. A su vez es un muy buen disco instalador para Sugar en un disco duro interno, externo (usb) o en un pendrive. Es el verdadero Sugar de Sugarlabs para pc y portables no-XO con su Linux Fedora de base. El resultado es Sugar tal cual debe ser siempre que la pc sea adecuada y compatible. Nosotros aquí nos concentraremos en la instalación de Sugar en el disco duro interno de la pc.

unum, a stand-alone utility program written in portable Perl which allows you to look up Unicode and HTML characters by name or number, and interconvert numbers in decimal, hexadecimal, and octal bases.

requiers 50mb - Light enough to power a 486DX with 16MB of Ram APPS: XMMS (MP3, CD Music, and MPEG), FTP client, FireFox, spreadsheet, Sylpheed email, word-processor (Ted), three editors, graphics editing and viewing , PDF Viewer, file manager, chat, VNCviwer, Rdesktop, SSH/SCP server and client, DHCP client, PPP, PPPoE (ADSL), a web server, calculator, NFS, Fluxbox and JWM window managers, games, system monitoring apps, a host of command line tools, USB support, and pcmcia support, some wireless support

Opcion Font Viewer is a Java based font viewer that allows you to view (un)installed TrueType fonts one or many at a time.

The liveusb-creator is a cross-platform tool for easily installing live operating systems on to USB flash drives.