Potential disaster for Rev/Linux pendrive apps

[Bob Warren]

Just quickly Luis:

>Out of curiosity: If you have a second USB flash drive, and you plug 
that in as well, does it make any difference?

My wife tried to buy me a 2nd pendrive last week, but the max size they 
had was 1GB. I'm looking for a 2GB drive so that perhaps I can run 
Ubuntu from it later on. Sorry, no go at the moment.

 >Spotted this bug in the Ubuntu support, is it the same one you're 
referring to? https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ticket/2436

No, the report I put in myself is this one:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/88229

I have the awful feeling this really is supposed to be a feature. If you 
try to execute a Rev app from the pendrive it comes up with a message 
saying that there is no available software for its installation. What 
worries me is the possibility that soon it will also be impossible to 
run Rev standalone apps from the Desktop or anywhere else for that 
matter without a setup procedure. There are perhaps security 
considerations involved here, but in practical terms it would be a 
disaster for the portability of Rev apps (and possibly Rebol apps too).

To me, this is an extremely important issue. I have informed Kevin about 
it and I have tried to take it up with Ubuntu, but so far nobody has 
demonstrated any interest. I am beginning to wonder why I should bother 
to bust my own guts over it. Que sera sera???

Bob