Build the ultimate thumb drive!

Update: Here is a link to my video tutorial: Ultimate USB

This next post is about making the best thumb drive ever. You can be the envy of all the geeks around you! Here are a bunch of easy steps to build your awesome thumb drive.

Step 1:
note: If you are a Windows user and have no access to a Mac, skip this step. If not, continue with this step.
First, partition your thumb drive so that you have at least about 100mb as a Macintosh formatted portion. The rest should be in good old fat32.
Step 2:
Install Linux. I recommend using Slax, for it is lightweight and powerful. You can build your own release or just download the main build. Install this on the fat32 partition.
Step 3:
Portable Apps. Go to this link and download the portable apps suite for your thumb drive. Install it to the fat32 partition. The standard suite is for thumb drives with more storage space. But, the lite suite is powerful enough. Windows users, you are done. If you have access to a mac, here's where the other partition comes into play. Visit this link and download all the apps you want and have the space for. Place the unzipped folders directly on to your Macintosh formatted partition.
Wrapping up:
Place all your media and docs on the fat32 partition in the folders that Portableapps created for you. To boot into Linux, change the BIOS to boot from the thumb drive. Now you have a very cool USB drive that you can use anywhere. It can help you out when you need to work on a document at a library or anything.