Booting and running Linux from USB pendrive for Netbooks seems quite easy to 
do now with various programs to help with this.
I've tried various programs that enable persistence on pendrives but find 
that after saving a certain about of data the whole thing slows to a crawl 
or even locks up.
Has anyone in this group tried doing this with any success.

Peter 

Peter wrote:

> Booting and running Linux from USB pendrive for Netbooks seems quite easy
> to do now with various programs to help with this.
> I've tried various programs that enable persistence on pendrives but find
> that after saving a certain about of data the whole thing slows to a crawl
> or even locks up.
> Has anyone in this group tried doing this with any success.
> 
> Peter


Its a fatally flawed approach to computing.
The USB link and devices are too slow for what you are doing if it involves
a lot of writing and/or simultaneous reading.
Either put your home directory in a separate USB drive
or use your SSD / hard drive for the OS.

Don't even think of introducing windummy formatting to the drives
if you are serious about fast computing.
Use EX2 for the pen drives and install www.fs-driver.org
to read it on windummy OS.
EX2 is 10 times faster than windummy formats on Linux netbooks.