Well MetroPipe Network Services has offered up a preview release of their “USB Virtual Private Machine“. It’s a program small enough (~100MB) to fit on a USB thumb drive that will allow you to carry Internet applications, email, bookmarks, history, web cookies, download files. Because all this information is stored on the virtual machine on your thumb drive it grants you a large ammount of security when browsing the web or reading email in internet cafes or while traveling.
Features include
- English Keyboard Support.
- No Install needed.
- The VPM’s network connection will auto configure and run seamlessly on any machine with a working internet connection.
- This PR1 release runs on Windows and Linux – final release version will also run on OS X
- Created from 100% Open Source GPL code and binaries