“A bootable 4 GB Flash Drive containing a portable version of
Mandriva Linux 2008 is now available from Mandriva for 79 EUR ($89)
and from Amazon for $94. The general idea is that you can take this
little memory stick with you and be able to run Linux from it, do
Internet and Office tasks with Firefox, Thunderbird, and
OpenOffice, and save your files to the free space on the drive. The
Mandriva system can access Windows volumes, and the free space on
the flash drive can be read from Windows…”
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