Personal networking suite in your pocket

Stumble It!

Okay, this is pretty darned cool: Metropipe has a product called Virtual Privacy Machine, which is actually a tiny (82MB) Linux distribution which boots into a virtual machine under Windows. It contains common networking apps like Firefox and Thunderbird, and I assume ssh and friends, as well.

Since it’s so small, you can load it onto a small USB drive, MP3 player, or whatever portable media you have, mount it up on a computer wherever you happen to be, and keep all your personal settings with you. As an added bonus, it’s downloadable via Bittorrent. (via Hal Rottenberg).

Stumble It!

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  1. r personal settings with you. As an added bonus, it’s downloadable via Bittorrent. [via]

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  2. Pocket sized linux

    Over at Geek ramblings I just stumbled across Metropipes Virtual Privacy Machine which is nothing else than a Damn Small Linux Image combined with QEmu and all that at the size of 122MB, which fits on an usb stick… if I only had one.

  3. Aphex Says:

    I saw your blog post and thought you might be interested in this…

    http://www.iamaphex.net/vpm/