[PAR35]

and once booted the OS can't write to the local hard drive or USB media.

That's going to make it really popular with the masses. < / grin >

[cloud8]

and once booted the OS can't write to the local hard drive or USB media.

> That's going to make it really popular with the masses. < / grin >

A real hit with the open source masses too.

I bet you could load a stripped-down Ubuntu onto a 2 gig flash drive, boot from it and have enough room to save your data on it. The cool thing would be the ability to save your system settings and bookmarks, which you cannot do with the Knoppix live CD on a system w/o a linux partition.