This will create thumb drives on windows and linux.
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

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>   1. installing Ubuntu from thumb drive (Mike Miller)
>   2. Programming PIC microcontrollers (Jason Hsu, Linux user)
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> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:46:31 -0600 (CST)
> From: Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com <mbmiller%2Bl at gmail.com>>
> Subject: [tclug-list] installing Ubuntu from thumb drive
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> I have installed Ubuntu from a thumb drive and it was pretty smooth and
> easy.  I did it once because I had no CD drive on a netbook and wanted
> Ubuntu Netbook Remix, and another time on a laptop with a flakey CD drive.
> The thing is, I used Ubuntu on another machine to make the USB, but I want
> to tell a friend far away using only Windows how he can do this.  Do you
> know of good instructions on how to make the Ubuntu installation thumb
> drive from a Windows box?
>
> By the way, a young guy with a BA in Math told me he wanted to be a
> scientist so I told him that step #1 was to get rid of Windows, use Ubuntu
> and start learning R, bash, emacs, and so on.  I think Python would be a
> good idea too, but he's working mostly on stats right now and we don't
> want to do everything at once.  Funny thing is he already was using
> OpenOffice, GIMP, Firefox/Tbird and a bunch of other free software under
> Windows, so he has no real Windows-dependency problem.  He's the guy who
> needs the thumb drive.
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> Mike
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> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:13:50 -0600
> From: "Jason Hsu, Linux user" <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com>
> Subject: [tclug-list] Programming PIC microcontrollers
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> If you are an electrical engineer or electronics hobbyist interested in
> programming PIC microcontrollers with C source code in Linux instead of
> Windows, I have been able to get things working in antiX Linux M8.2 with
> MPLAB version 8.43 (with  HI-TECH PICC 9.70) in WINE 1.0.1-1.  This
> combination gives me all of the functionality I had in Windows without
> requiring the use of Windows.
>
> I tried using open source software in Linux (SDCC, GPSIM, PikLab/KTechLab)
> but kept running into problems.  The arrow pointing to the line of code
> never showed up when using GPSIM to simulate C code.  I also ran into issues
> like limitations in the selection of microcontrollers supported.  I admire
> what the open source developers are doing, but their work is not yet ready
> for prime time.
>
> I had difficulty in the past trying to program microcontrollers with C
> source code in Puppy Linux.  I'm not sure if the issue was the older version
> of WINE, the older version of MPLAB (before HI-TECH PICC was integrated into
> MPLAB), or Puppy Linux itself.
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> --
> Jason Hsu, Linux user <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com>
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