From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2004-12-29T17:11:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby USB Drive

Giovanni Intini <intinig@gmail.com> wrote:
> Basically I need a portable development enviroment that can be used
> with OSX, Linux and Windows. Windows could be bypassed by putting a
> bootable minimal live linux distribution on the drive, but then I
> could find myself on a box that can't boot from a usb drive (I have
> two of them at home :)).

Besides which, according to a slashdot poster this is not recommended,
since your drive will take a beating (assuming you have the swap file on
there too).

martin