live-cd distro that writes to cd

[William Park]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:54:43PM +0200, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Matt Cahill wrote:
> >Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 3:25:40 PM, you wrote:
> >> I doubt it, since USB key drives are coming down fast.  What does
> >> DVD offer compared to 1GB or 2GB USB key?
> >
> >A free frisbee (or optionally, a throwing star) :)
> >
> >Seriously, it's a good point. I wonder if DVD *isn't* the bally-hoo'd
> >future standard it's cracked-up to be, what with flash-drive prices
> >dropping as their storage potential exponentially increases.
> 
> One thing I'm pretty sure of: 30 seconds after the first 5GB disk on
> key will appear, somewhere on this planet a DVD will be copied into it
> and passed on to a friend, possibly at work, 'just to show it'. Forget
> surfing at work, now you can watch your favorite movie! ;-)

USB key will certainly change few things:

    - embedded market -- USB will completely take over embedded market,
      because all you need is a board with USB port, and you can boot it
      just like your regular computer.  (This is what I'm doing with my 
      thin-client thing).

    - commercial application -- you can load USB key with your favourite
      app (eg. MS-Word, CorelDraw, etc), and use it wherever you are.
      That is, you buy the software once for the USB key, instead of
      buying for every machines you use.  In fact, I'm hearing rumours
      that people are thinking about selling applications pre-installed
      on USB key.  (Of course, I'm doing that already).

    - secured data transfer -- no need for encryption.  Possible
      application might be hospitals, where in-house local transfer is
      needed but without wireless or cable.

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