Moka5

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moka5 is a LivePC engine by moka5 Team, Stanford University.

1 Objective
2 Overview
3 Features
4 Pros and Cons
5 See also
6 Links

[edit] Objective

moka5 was founded, in 2005, by a group of PhD types from Stanford and their professor, Dr. Monica Lam. The team had a single goal—to change the way personal computing is experienced by consumers. Why? Because personal computing has lost its focus on the user experience — instead personal computing has become more complicated, highly problematic and difficult to manage. moka5 believes that your personal PC should be as easy to use as watching television — you turn it on, it works, you press a button and you get exactly what you want, when you want it. Computing with no hassles, no maintenance or security problems. The founders of moka5 spent five years researching optimized virtualization and innovative user experience technology. This led the team to develop the moka5 LivePC Engine. "In university research, we try to create fundamentally sound solutions from the ground up rather than provide incremental solutions. LivePCs are a new approach to computer management that addresses many issues such as spyware, mobile computing, home computer management, hardware migration and disaster recovery. We are excited and committed to putting this technology in the hands of real users."

Taken from moka5.com

[edit] Overview

moka5 is designed to be installed on a PC or USB Flash Drive. It is intended to run programs without installation. It is available as freeware. It is able to run normal windows applications in a similar way to MojoPac^{[citation needed]}. moka5 runs "LivePCs" which are images of a PC and they are then emulated by a VMware software to function as a separate PC with its own settings, appearance and registry.

[edit] Features

moka5 runs VWware to produce a "LivePC" environment. This enables software to run on a host machine without installation. This is done by using virtualization of software by encapsulating it within a VMware program. It allows you to choose the environment for the VMware to run. This is done by downloading/buffering the "LivePC" that is desired from their website. It is possible to add your own "LivePC" environments to their web page. Many of these LivePCs are Linux distributions. Users have to create their own Windows LivePCs using utility provided by moka5.

[edit] Pros and Cons

Pros

moka5 allows users to run applications not specifically intended for portability.
moka5 enables users to test Linux distributions that may not be live CD capable
moka5 allows users to run any operating systems on top of Windows desktop

Cons