Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 3rd Dec 2007 20:34 UTC, submitted by AdamW
Mandriva Flash 2008 has been released. "Mandriva Flash 4GB provides a full-featured system - Mandriva Linux 2008 KDE- that requires no installation, on a bootable USB key. All you have to do is plug in the USB key, turn the PC on and the Mandriva Linux operating system is ready to use, with all you need for office work, Internet and multimedia tasks. System configuration, preferences and data are all saved on the key."
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IHMO it'd be nice if on the first boot the user was presented with some short info about information theft and the risks, possibly with a link to a more in-depth explanation of such, and the option of encrypting one's home folder. If you did select to encrypt your files you'd just have to enter a password every time you boot with Mandriva Flash. Power-users or users who don't feel the need to encrypt their files would also be given the opportunity of not encrypting them.
But how difficult would it be to implement such? AFAIK there is no filesystem under Linux which supports encryption of files and folders so it would probably have to be either the entire filesystem or a loopback one..(PS. Someone implement file/folder encryption, please?)