Ubuntu 9.10 on a USB Stick

Since Ubuntu 9.10 came out I have been playing with the Desktop and Server releases quite a bit. In the Server instance they now include Ubuntu’s Enterprise Cloud, which is really a fantastic piece of kit. More information can be found here. The part I like the most is being able to move your machines between a public environment (EC2) to a private one (your Enterprise Cloud). That’s all contained in the Server release and I’ll have a post on that later.

But what I want to inform you all of today is that with the live version of Ubuntu Desktop you can install it on a USB stick and boot from it. Whats different in this release compared to others is that there is a GUI tool for you to do it. None of this messing about with text files trying to get a bootloader and bios to work together.

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CheatSheets that I use

So when I’m programming or doing anything of that sort, I tend to have a cheat sheet for the tool or piece of software that I’m using at any given time, be it for an IDE like Netbeans or Textmate, or just a command-line tool like Git or SVN. It really can make life much simpler when you just have the commands or shortcuts at hand.

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