LiveUSB Linux distro for programming?

[Colonel_Panyk]

I had the idea of making a Linux distribution with all the tools commonly used for programming in First that could be booted from USB on almost any computer as well as installed to hard drive. Anyone have thoughts or suggestions? I'm new to First, so I'm not entirely sure on how useful it would be.

[basicxman]

I've never tried this but have always been curious:
http://firstforge.wpi.edu/sf/projects/ucpp

Something like that on a Ubuntu thumbdrive w/ gedit or Vim would be awesome. Especially at my school where we can't install software on the PCs. I've never had the time to look into solutions.

[gixxy]

My solution is to just have Netbeans on my flashdrive for the Windows PCs at my school:
http://portableapps.com/node/28772
(you will have to copy over your own jdk to the flash drive for Netbeans because of copyright stuff stopping them from releasing it with Netbeans.)

and the project files are cross platform so I don't have many problems with moving them over to my Ubuntu Laptop or the Teams one Ubuntu computer.

[shuhao]

You could get a stock Ubuntu distro (recommend xubuntu as it's very light), use the ubuntu start up creator to create a liveUSB with persistence

Then you can install apps on to the usb drive.

It's excellent.

Another really good way to do it is to install debian or something light to an external hdd. However USB2.0 is really slow..