[sdiy] bootable linux cd

[Glen]

At 10:29 PM 7/25/03 , metasonix wrote:

>What kind of sickie enjoys waiting for an OS to 
>load from a hard drive?? 

I'd like a stable OS that boots from non-volatile silicon memory, and which
can't be altered by the software which runs on that OS. For example, I'm
thinking along the lines of a memory card that has to be physically removed
from the computer to change the OS, instead of an OS stored on vulnerable
hard drive space, which could be altered by a rogue program or random power
failure.

Having the means to "lock-down" your executables would also be nice, but I
wouldn't want each executable on a separate memory card, I'd just want to
be able to physically set some sections of memory as read-only, by manually
setting some physical switches myself. (Of course, this memory would be
non-volatile as well.)

I know I'm dreaming, and I know it would need a huge amount of memory, but
I think it would be better than what we have now.


later,
Glen