Portable Ubuntu

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Portable Ubuntu

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Website: http://portableubuntu.sourceforge.net/
Download: http://portableubuntu.sourceforge.net/i ... n=download
Category: Others - Emulators

Synopsis: Portable Ubuntu for Windows is an Ubuntu system running as a Windows application. This system is built with the Colinux Kernel, Xming X server and Pulseaudio server for Windows. Portable Ubuntu for Windows is a useful tool for when you need to move yourself to another machine that has Windows as its operating system.

How to extract: Download the EXE file and launch. Creates a portable_ubuntu folder. Run run_portable_ubuntu.bat.

License: Freeware

Not certain about stealth or all supported windows operating system versions.
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#2 Post by m^(2) »

Doesn't work on Windows x64.
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#3 Post by JohnW »

BTW ...

Download is 438 Mb !!!
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#4 Post by 1002Richards »

Not sure how portable each one is (as reqd by this website) but Pendrive Linux is what it says & is really easy, lots of versions covered:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

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#5 Post by -.- »

nice

though its almost like running portable virtualbox with ubuntu installed on it

i like this except reason to use ubuntu is to use less resources than windows... and this uses both windows + emulator so ubuntu isnt any faster :S

edit: just tried it, not bad but its almost 2gb extracted :S... not much room on a flash drive for anything else lol
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#6 Post by carbonize »

Isn't Ubuntu portable anyway? As in Live CD portable?
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#7 Post by ashghost »

This uses coLinux to allow you to run Ubuntu in Windows. Although appsuser suggested it be placed in the category of emulators, it does not use virtualization like QEMU, VirtualBox, or VMWare:
AndLinux wrote:coLinux is a port of the Linux kernel to Windows. Although this technology is a bit like running Linux in a virtual machine, coLinux differs itself by being more of a merger of Windows and the Linux kernel and not an emulated PC, making it more efficient.
It's differs from a liveCD in that you don't have to be able to reboot the machine in order to run it (though I don't know if you need admin rights). It's (probably) less resource-hungry than an emulator, and it's definitely snappier on my Vista machine than running in QEMU.

If you want more info, check out AndLinux, which is a more mature project that requires installation (and was probably the inspiration, if not the source, for PortableUbuntu):

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http://www.andlinux.org/index.php
It's really cool, but you do miss out on some of the best features of running Linux instead of Windows (security, Compiz, etc.).
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Re: Portable Ubuntu

#8 Post by joby_toss »

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Portable Ubuntu Remix version TRES released!

Changes:
  • Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmin Koala).
    Colinux 0.80 (Kernel 2.6.33).
    Root filesystem with 3.7 Gb.
    Cygwin 1.7.
    Cygwin/X.
    Fixed configuration of the keyboard layout.
    Optative graphics effects.
    Fixed init scripts.
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