{"id":200,"date":"2008-03-27T19:22:48","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T01:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/?p=200"},"modified":"2008-03-27T19:35:26","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T01:35:26","slug":"potable-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/potable-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Potable Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, I admit, it’s not really “potable” apps, but “portable apps”. I recently wrote about Knoppix on a stick, and mentioned winPenPack<\/a> where you can get a whole collection of portable apps installable on a USB stick, a\/k\/a flash drive. In the Knoppix article I wrote about having\/escaping the Linux wireless connection conundrum. The evening I wrote the article, it connected with ease. The following evening, however, I just couldn’t find the right sequence of clicks to get a wireless connection. The bad thing about this portable Linux on a stick is that it doesn’t save configuration settings between boots. Even if you save a file right on the desktop, it’s gone the next time you boot it up. I’m hoping there’s a way around this. But that’s not what this article is about.<\/p>\n

Being frustrated with the inability to get Linux connected to the internet, I went back to Windows and went to one of my favorite hangouts — the Sourceforge<\/a> site. Sourceforge is essentially the home of the Open Source Community. It’s more than just a place to get free programs. It’s a place infused with the energy and mindset that made the internet what it should be. A person could write a lot more about that, but I’ll save it for another time.<\/p>\n

While perusing Sourceforge I came across the Portable Apps Project<\/a>. The same thing also has its own Portable Apps Website<\/a>. I think Portable Apps might even be better than winPenPack. I downloaded the standard suite and installed it all on one USB stick, and then downloaded a bunch more portable apps to add to it. Having already done a couple of installations of winPenPack and, therefore, being already familiar with how much can packed onto one little USB stick, I was nevertheless again amazed at all the stuff I put on it, and how much space is still left. I was hard pressed to think of anything more to add, that I might conceivably want to have on it. Yet, a visit to the PortableApps website just now revealed several new additions to the list of available apps, particularly, several new games. The standard PortableApps installation includes Sudoku.<\/p>\n

Like winPenPack and Knoppix, PortableApps is all free stuff. BTW, I’m back on Knoppix\/Linux this evening, while also watching a little March Madness, though I’ll likely be paying more attention to the TV and less attention to the monitor tomorrow, when KU will be playing. Rock Chalk!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, I admit, it’s not really “potable” apps, but “portable apps”. I recently wrote about Knoppix on a stick, and mentioned winPenPack where you can get a whole collection of portable apps installable on a USB stick, a\/k\/a flash drive. In the Knoppix article I wrote about having\/escaping the Linux wireless connection conundrum. The evening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","comment-closed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}