(hiving this off from the Hardy Heron thread to avoid threadjacking)
I'm keen to make a USB Everything Stick that will have the following:
* A free and bootable OS (probably Hardy).
* An encrypted data partition.
* Platform-independent PIM tools.
* Brainless backup.
First guess at this would be something like:
An 8gb stick with two partitions. One 4Gb Hardy install, which ought to be pretty vanilla. The other for data, formatted in FAT32.
The data partition to contain appropriate Linux and Windows mount-me-baby encryption software and a virtual encrypted disk. Any idea what product to try?
Now, PIM-wise I use a Wiki Onna Stick and Sunbird Onna Stick. The wiki is platform independent so as long as it's in the encrypted virtual filesystem and that's mounted, all is golden.
Where does Sunbird keep its data? And can the same Sunbird file be used by a Windows executable version and the Linux boot once it has mounted the encrypted drive?
Oh and backup, um. That's not going to be just xcopy *.* is it?