View Full Version : Easiest way to make a bootable thumb drive with linux I have found so far.
I found this tool tonight that just makes it too easy to make a bootable linux thumb drive. You can check the list on the site for the distros it supports at the moment.
I installed ubuntu and it worked great.
There is also an option to run ubuntu in a window in Windows via a customized Virtual Box. That works great too.
http://www.linuxliveusb.com/
Petr Schreiber
11-01-2010, 18:03
Thanks for the tip,
the GUI looks easy enough to have the USB ready in few minutes.
Petr
Charles Pegge
12-01-2010, 00:08
Thanks Kent,
This looks perfect for Linux development. I would much prefer to work with a lightweight Linux on my main PC. I wonder if FreeBasic will run on it.
Thanks Kent,
This looks perfect for Linux development. I would much prefer to work with a lightweight Linux on my main PC. I wonder if FreeBasic will run on it.
I'll try downloading freebasic and let you know Charles.
FreeBASIC is not available on any of the program repositories for Ubuntu. I then downloaded it from freebasic.net. I got the standalone version.
When I went to compile hello.bas I got an error. The solution is here:
http://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11217
I used the Jaunty commands in that post and it worked with Ubuntu 9.10.
I got hello.bas to compile, but when I try to run it, it doesn't run. So I don't know what is wrong there.
Charles Pegge
12-01-2010, 12:31
Thanks Kent. It looks like FreeBasic has a lot of dependencies, (even for console i/o!) and the required libraries are not always
available in different distros.
I will try to confine Oxygen core dependencies to the Linux kernel and Opengl, when the time comes :)
Charles
Charles have you looked at Chrome OS yet? It is sitting right on top of linux from my readings. I did not download it because system level stuff is beyond me. But I am sure you might find it interesting.
http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/building-chromium-os
Charles Pegge
13-01-2010, 12:57
This is a very interesting an important topic Kent, so I've started a new thread with some videos on Chromium/Chrome OS
The security stuff proposed for native code on the Google Summit video was astonishing! Complete disassembly
of application and functional inspection at the binary level :shock:
http://community.thinbasic.com/index.php?topic=3120.0
Thanks Charles, I am in a video watching learning mode tonight to check out your links, thanks!