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noonespecial on Dec 27, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Special Purpose Linux Distributions

Its cool to see the OS starting to be configured specifically around certain applications rather than the other way around.

How soon until apps live in their own specific OS environments on USB sticks and my "main OS" is just a hypervisor to run them? The return of the cartridge. Everything old is new again.

jiggy2011 on Dec 27, 2012 [–]

USB sticks? I'd rather just have everything pulled over the network and cached on my SSD :)

dredmorbius on Dec 28, 2012 | [–]

Sticks are still handy if you want to be able to boot Joe Random Device to a known standard distro. And/or for security / forensics / recovery work.

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