Operating systems on a stick

  • Authors:
  • Eric Shade

  • Affiliations:
  • Missouri State University, Springfield, MO

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Though most of our computer science curriculum is operating-system agnostic, Windows is installed on our lab machines and most of our students' computers, but we require Linux in our operating systems course. What is the best way to provide a Linux environment for students to use both at home and in our labs? We revisit the traditional solutions to this problem in light of recent trends in network security and virtualization, then explain our current solution, which is to provide a custom 768MiB Ubuntu JeOS virtual machine on a USB flash drive.