Well as my notebook is getting old, and pretty heavy, I’m trying to find out a way to do my work when I’m not in front of my desktop.
A USB key looks like the most light weight solution so late last year I’ve got my self a unibit 256M one. 
. The picture is taken from the manufacture site at http://www.unibit.com.cn/products_show.asp?id=53. It comes with a USB 2.0 interface so the speed is pretty good. What I like most is that it’s so thin that can perfectly fit into my wallet so I’ll take it everywhere I go and won’t worry about if I have it with me.
The next thing is to choose the software on it. As an open/free software fan I have 2 choices:
- build a mini *BSD on it.
- have a set of windows software on it.
The good thing for approach (1) is that I’ll have a full OS with me and a pretty familiar interface, especially if I build a mini FreeBSD. And I can have it running whatever OS is installed on the PC I borrowed.
However now adays there are still lots of PCs around with only a USB interface but not able to boot from a USB key. And in some network bars they may forbit me to change the BIOS settings to boot from USB.
Thinking it through I thing approach (2) is a more suitable choice for now. So in this category I’ll introduce some of the softwares I choose to install to the USB key and bring with me.
Some of the requirements for the softwares will be:
- Open software is most prefferred. Or at least free-to-use softwares. No commercial software.
- Must be small. To fit in to my USB key and don’t take too much space of it.
- Green software. That is, no registery writting, no dll installed to the system directory, and I can bring the settings with me on the key.
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