We highly recommend you buy one of those really small and cheap $300 netbooks from Acer to dedicate to your goldsprints system. That way there is no risk of anyone else using it improperly, dropping it and/or accidentally downloading a virus before an event.

Currently the Linux operating system is the best supported option, but before you start twitching when faced with the unknown, you can install everything on a common USB thumb drive (example pictured). We do our best to keep updated installation instructions on our wiki, so please go to...

Software Installation Instructions

If you have any trouble at all, please contact us, if you really want to, we can install a thumb drive for you an mail it out for a nominal fee.