I gave the Portable Ubuntu program a run today. I manually extracted the files using 7Zip since the executable had an error when it extracted the files. Then it took about three runs before my firewall, Comodo, and I agreed on the executables to unblock. I did get Portable Ubuntu to burp and stick my PC with a task using 50% of the CPU. Restarting Portable Ubuntu fixed that problem. Other than the burp, the performance was adequate. The biggest problem is I am not sure what I would use it for. A Portable BackTrack 3 might be more interesting since it has Linux applications I am interested in using occasionally.

Windows only: Free application Portable Ubuntu for Windows runs an entire Linux operating system as a Windows application. As if that weren’t cool enough, it’s portable, so you can carry it on your…

Portable Ubuntu Runs Ubuntu Inside Windows [Downloads]
Kevin Purdy
Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

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