I have installed the LivePC Engine on my Motorola SLVR cell phone, which has a 1.0G SanDisk microSD card. The installation took a long time but it fitted everything it needs on the microSD. I was able to launch the Engine but it also took a very long time. I guess the microSD is too slow for this application. I hope the memory card will be fast enough in the future as I really want to carry my computing environment on my cell phone.

Next test, install LivePC engine on my Sony PSP.

Do you know that you can import LiveCD directly into the LivePC Engine? Just click Import, select LiveCDs as the file type, and then open the LiveCD ISO file. You can use the LiveCD as one of the LivePCs.

If you are a LiveCD creator, do you know that you can publish your LiveCD through our website and let the users try it out easily? Just go to the Beta Garage at out site, click "Submit a New LiveCD," and fill up the form on the "My LiveCDs" page. With our technologies, your users will not need to download the whole image file and burn it on a CD before they can try out your creation.

The LivePC Engine provides a feature that allows user to share files between the LivePC and the host computer. If the LivePC is configured with this feature, then the user can saves a file in her "My Document" folder and she can access the file from her host computer. She can access the file even the LivePC is not running. The LivePC can be configured to share files between other LivePCs. More information about the file sharing feature can be found here.

Quake II, released on December 6, 1997, is one of the best first person shooter games developed by id Software. The moka5 team has put together a very small Quake2 LivePC that let you re-live the history. Just go to the Beta Garage and download the Quake2 LivePC.

By the way, we even set up a couple Quake II Arenas on our server for multiplayer games. Check it out and you may find some of us there "testing" our LivePC.

People often work from home by setting up a VPN on their home computer. However, it is quite difficult for non-technical users to get a VPN to work and it is also difficult for the system administrator to debug the user's home computer remotely.

By creating a LivePC with the VPN pre-configured and all the proper security settings, users can easily invoke this LivePC from home to connect back to the corporate network. System administrators can also pre-install the LivePC Engine on a USB device and give it to the users. Now the users can access the corporate network without installing any software on their home computer.

Welcome to moka5! Over the past few months our team has been busy hacking, testing, debugging, writing, and debating long into the night. We've now reached a milestone that we're all very excited about — our first public beta release of the LivePC Engine. The software is now available for anyone to download and try out, so please give it a whirl!

For our public beta, we have a brand new version of the LivePC Engine. The most significant change is the ability to install the LivePC Engine on a USB drive. With a USB drive and the LivePC Engine you can take your LivePCs with you to use on any computer. When you quit and remove the USB drive, there will be no traces of your activity left behind. It's very slick to see it in action — we've had a lot of fun testing it out around the office with every flash drive and mp3 player we could get our hands on.