I would say since those thumbdrives are solid state, theoretically they should last forever, barring fire, flood, act of God, or static discharge . .

 

I'd like to do that myself, get an 8 GB thumb and install SuSE on it and run it on the St. Joe library machines, completely bypassing their native o/s.  I don't think they'd like it unless I could prove to them it wouldn't muck up something in Windoze (version of the week).

 

Gary Hildebrand

St. Joe, MO
 

From: "Brian Kelsay" <ripcrd@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Installing Linux to a 4gb usb microdrive

There's info out there on how to prevent excessive writes.  Google for Linux
on a CF.

http://pendrivelinux.com/
In Linux disable the swap and use the no atime option in your fstab.
Turn off logging or log to a remote server.
Brian