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quaker, where did you get the SE versions of the services from?

zaher, yes I use beyond compare to do disk backups of the USB stick.

quaker, yes I tried it, pretty cool, could be used for a kiosk or demo type of application.

A few suggestions to make it slimmer:
a) Clear the ib_log files in the mysql/data directory.
b) Get rid of some of the language files in phpMyAdmin or the whole thing if it's just a PunBB demo.
c) Do we really need ImageMagick?

WOS has done a good job, it could be taken a step further to make it very small for distribution.

Related news of the day:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ … lTech/home

The dev team is working on it: http://dev.punbb.org/report/1

Ok, I see, it's an image for a virtualization engine.

Wonder why they picked Ubuntu when there's a few minimalistic Linux versions out there?

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
http://www.puppyos.com/
http://featherlinux.berlios.de/

It's a huge download, 127MB, wonder what it contains?

pedrotuga,

I do plan on installing a small Linux distro on one of the USB disks but that would require a reboot of the host system, unless virtualization is in play. I was looking more for ease of use, no need to interfere with the host and to walk away without leaving a trace.

No, it's not that difficult to get Apache, MySQL and PHP running on Windows, this thread proves it.

An AMP stack on a stick is but one element, have you seen PortableApps?

Well, well, I'm impressed.

Very easy to get PunBB running:

a) Type in http://localhost in my browser which brings up the XAMMP control panel.
b) Click the phpMyAdmin link and create the PunBB database and a new user with privileges.
c) Run the install.php from the punbb folder, a couple of minutes later and I'm running PunBB.

Running great, very fast for a USB drive. Makes for a neat and very portable dev environment.

Next I installed Textpattern, wanted to test URL rewriting. Just as quick to install and it runs super fast.

For .htaccess rewriting, I had to uncomment this line from E:\xampplite\apache\conf\httpd.conf:
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so - line 118

So there you have it, a mini how-to and a proof of concept.

PunBB is a forum and as such would need a little tweaking before using it as a CMS.

a) No access to the date when posting.
b) Posts with future dates are displayed, though it's scheduled to be changed for 1.3.
c) The parser is geared towards bbcode, not html.

Just the above few things are a basic element of any CMS, so like Jeremie says, it's better to start off with a bare bones CMS.

Like the Dr. said, do your research.

What's a good host today, can become a really bad host 6 months from now. Popularity has a way of making money hungry individuals oversell their hardware.

Personally, I'd go with a small outfit that has no intentions of growing.

guardian34, I know you weren't making fun, I just wish we'd all Google more often.

quaker, I think a local host would be better for everything, there are people with limited connectivity.

pogenwurst, good point, worth checking out.

I did some research and there doesn't appear to be too many people working on USB AMP stacks, so I'm going to go out and get a 1GB Sandisk Cruzer USB drive and start playing around.