[tug-summer-of-code] Idea for GSoC

[Karl Berry]

    My idea is to allow run LaTeX on external memory devices. 

Thanks for the idea, but I think it's basically done.  In addition to
what's been said here already, TeX Live includes a tl-portable script;
you can do an installation to a stick (of whatever size, doesn't have to
be the full thing) and then use tl-portable to access it, without having
to have any access to the host system's hard disks.  This was the best
approach we could devise ...

Best,
Karl