From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-11-01T15:02:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby performance on Windows XP

Dark Ambient wrote:
> 1- Someone from the Rails list has made a project of Rails (and Ruby)
> LiveCD
> using PC Linux I believe.
> 
> 2- One attractive feature ( I think) of Ubuntu is you can use a usb flash
> drive as the /home directory.
> I imagine  Gentoo can do the same thing ?  Kind of nice and portable then.
> 
> Stuart
> 
> 
Yeah ... PC Linux is easy to make LiveCDs with. Almost any LiveCD Linux
will allow you to access a USB drive -- just mount it the way you'd
mount any other partition. Unfortunately, there are a couple of gotchas
with USB drives. They are almost always formatted FAT32, so almost any
OS can read them. You're better off formatting them with a Windows
machine -- sometimes when you format them on Linux, Windows has a
problem reading and writing them.