I'm on a college campus that provides free printing through its Linux lab, however the computers are running on Fedora with no word processing software, or even a simple program SIMILAR to Windows' WordPad. I only print Word (.doc) documents, so without the software to open the format, I'm stuck. Since I have no permission to install any software on these machines, I was wondering if it was possible to load a linux word processor program onto my USB drive to use when on a Linux MACHINE?

I'm a newbie to Linux, so I'm thinking this process will be different than loading a Windows .exe file onto a USB drive to just execute whenever the drive is plugged in. I would also like to be ABLE to use this drive to store files too, so I would wonder if it is possible to load a linux program onto a USB drive that will STILL be used by Windows (Vista, XP, 2000) too?

Thanks for the help.heard of portable openoffice?http://portableapps.com/ - just in case you need more apps. OpenOffice.org Portable is for windows though... so unless the machines got Wine installed it wont do him much good.Yeah, I'm talking about a word processor that can handle .doc (maybe .rtf) straight in Linux, with no Windows at all. I see that the Open Office Portable is for Windows, so it doesn't solve my problem. My issue is finding a Linux word processor that can be loaded and executed from a USB drive in Linux.I think you can install KOffice onto a flash drive on another computer running linux and then use that flash drive to run koffice on the computers in the computer lab.
Or even install koffice in a home directory in a computer in the computer lab. You don't need to be root to do that.