IStick Wiki

Welcome to the wiki and homepage of the IStick project!

IStick is a portable environment for your USB key, which provides you with a menu, an automatic update manager, a newsreader, a file manager and much more. Thes software is written in the Python programming language, which allows you to run it on nearly all platforms you can imagine. Development takes place on GNU/Linux, even though the main focus is on providing Windows compatibility - so all the software we provide in the DemoRepository is windows software.

IStick is free software published under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is currently developed and maintained by Jörg Sawatzki <joerg at einsamerplanet dot de>.

Please subscribe to our mailing list for support and new release notifications!

Interesting starting points:

AboutIstick: giving you a brief overview what IStick is and what it can do for you
GettingIstick: sources and binaries ready for download
BuildingIstick: how to run IStick from the source code
ConfigFileFormat: what istick.cfg should look like
RepositoryFormat: showing you how to make your own update manager repository
DemoRepository: check out our demo repository that already has many portable applications ready for you
SupportIstick: what you can do if you like the project
SourceforgeProject: the project site at SourceForge.net
http://www.n-stick.de "N-21" offers a solution for lower saxonian schools based on our software
ContactPage: ways to contact me if you need help

Wiki related links:

RecentChanges: see where people are currently working
WikiSandBox: feel free to change this page and experiment with editing
FindPage: search or browse the database in various ways
HelpOnMoinWikiSyntax: quick access to wiki markup
SiteNavigation: get an overview over this site and what it contains

How to use this site

A Wiki is a collaborative site, anyone can contribute and share:

Edit any page by pressing Edit at the top or the bottom of the page
Create a link to another page with joined capitalized words (like WikiSandBox) or with [[words in brackets]]
Search for page titles or text within pages using the search box at the top of any page
See HelpForBeginners to get you going, HelpContents for all help pages.
You may practise by writing a short essay on your computer before posting some informaton on the site.

To learn more about what a WikiWikiWeb is, read about WhyWikiWorks and the WikiNature. Also, consult the HelpMiscellaneous/FrequentlyAskedQuestions page.