O'Reilly Developer Weblogs has published a brief article about using a USB “thumb” drive and a Knoppix Live CD to create a “ubiquitous computing” environment, a portable system the user can carry from computer to computer. The article also mentions several other ubiquitous computing projects.

The article, written by Kyle Rankin, a system administrator for The Green Sheet, begins by briefly mentioning a few fairly sophisticated ubiquitous computing projects, including RealVNC and the Internet Suspend/Resume, a project at the Intel Research Pittsburgh lab in Oakland, Calif. It then outlines how to create a rudimentary ubiquitous computing environment by booting a Knoppix Live CD and creating a persistent home directory on a removable storage device such as a USB thumb drive. On subsequent boots, the live CD is induced to find and use the persistent home directory by passing the “home=scan” Knoppix cheat-code at boot time.

The brief article hints at other ubiquitous computing capabilities provided by Knoppix, and suggests that early adopters give the popular embedded Linux distribution a look. More information about Knoppix is available here.

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