I am a big fan of PortableApps, most of which are Open Source such as Firefox, Gimp & OpenOffice. PortableApps allows you to run these applications from your USB thumb drive without leaving a trace (registry) on the client machine.

PortableApps is Windows focused, however I have found that almost all of the applications run quite happily under Wine. So I now have a truly portable virtual environment of my favourite applications where ever I go.

Labels: Linux, Open Source