On Mon April 6 2009 1:08:42 am jdd wrote:

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. a écrit :

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specific file systems). If your device supports full USB 2.0 speeds, it probably has wear-leveling.

I just read several makers pâges about this, and see that wear levelling is greanted years life time for moderate write usage (~3/day)

use as standard drive do much more writes than this.

I have I believe Puppy Linux (a very nice distribution made specifically for this purpose) on a flash drive. When it loads, it reads once and loads everything including the filesystem into RAM. It doesn't do anything to the drive until you shut down (even if you install something), at which point it writes back to it. Of course, you're limited to the amount of RAM on the machine for how much space you can use, but ideally you won't install large programs. The software included in the distribution is chosen for size and speed and should be all you need unless you're confident enough about the amount of RAM on the machines on which you'll use it and want to install something like openoffice.org. I believe its default wm is icewm (it's been a while since I've booted from it) and it provides icons on the desktop via another program (ROX-filer, perhaps). There is a pup package that gives you KDE, but again, you'll be limited to machines with a lot of RAM. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org