Here, for those of you still lapping up the whole USB programs off your thumb-drive thing, is FingerGear’s Computer-On-a-Stick:
The Computer-On-a-Stick (COS) is a USB Flash Drive featuring its own ultra fast Onboard Operating System with a full suite of Microsoft Office-compatible applications.
According to Tom’s Hardware Guide, the drive is 256 MB and has programs taking up 192 MB, and retails for about $150. Software includes “a Debian-based Linux OS, a version of the open-source productivity suite OpenOffice as well as Mozilla's Firefox web browser, an Instant messenger and a PDF viewer.” (Thanks, TechSpot News.)
A 512 MB version is coming soon, as is one with biometric fingerprint scanner.
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Of course, this is far more expensive than buying an empty USB stick and loading Linux on it yourself.
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