On Apr 9, 2011 12:23 AM, "der.hans" <PLUGd@lufthans.com> wrote:
> moin moin,
>
> Life would be grand if I could have at least GIMP for m$ and mac running
> off a USB drive for Monday morning :).
>
> I need to set up a PortableApps drive for someone. It looks like it wants
> to install via an exe, so needs m$ to set up. Is that true? If so, can
> someone help me with that at the meeting on Thursday?
>
> http://portableapps.com/download
>
> That lists all of the software installed by default? I want to make sure
> no freeware sneaks in.
>
> After the main install new packages can be installed by hand?
>
> Need to be running windows in order to install them?
>
> I like that 2.0 will support package updates. Seems so 1997, but glad it's
> finally happening :).
>
> Any of this available via torrent, so that I can help defray bandwidth
> costs for them?
>
> I'd like the same drive to also have an Ubuntu install. I believe m$ will
> completely ignore the ext? partitions that will hold the Ubuntu install
> and pretend they don't exist.
>
> Is there now anything equivalent for mac? Last time I asked there was
> something, but not quite as good. A quick search actually turns up quite a
> few things, so I guess the question really is "Is there a portable apps
> site/mechanism you would recommend?" :)
>
> http://osxportableapps.sourceforge.net/
>
> Looks like that requires use of a mac to build it. Hrmph :(.
>
> Hmm.
>
> http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps
>
> http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps:gimp/
>
> Can I just toss the dmg file on a FAT filesystem and let the mac do
> whatever the mac do whatever it does with dmg files and maybe it'll
> install GIMP on the thumb drive? Looks like I'll also need X11.
>
> Does XQuartz ( formerly XDarwin ) require admin to install? Can it also be
> portable on the USB drive?
>
> http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X112.6.1
>
> Hmm, needing to reinstall after updates from apple or needing to logout
> and login after installing doesn't look promising.
>
> It would also be awesome if I could install and maintain these things via
> GNU/Linux without needing the proprietary OSen.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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