OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20438/Battle_of_the_Thumb_Drive_Linux_Systems Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:08:54 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Lack of Mandriva Flash http://osnews.com/thread?335158 http://osnews.com/thread?335158 I'm disappointed by the lack of Mandriva Flash in the comparison. This product has been commercially available for quite a while, is well tested, and 'simply works' for almost every computer system I'm tested it on. I carry it around in my coat pocket compulsively. Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (troy.unrau) Comments Short bio thats about it http://osnews.com/thread?335159 http://osnews.com/thread?335159 Not much of a real roundup but it is a good overview of some of the distro's available by the unetbootin project. USB boot is great providing support is there in the bios. Shame solaris cant boot this way as well with this project so I can run around with a key chain full of zfs drives although it has got bsd's...
http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS mmm I hope to see those docs... Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lord-storm) Comments Slax linux http://osnews.com/thread?335160 http://osnews.com/thread?335160 I throw my vote in for Slax linux, great live OS. http://www.slax.org/ Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (poundsmack) Comments RE: Lack of Mandriva Flash http://osnews.com/thread?335166 http://osnews.com/thread?335166 I would have also liked to see the Debian-Live systms in there. It's not like they are new.

http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Crono) Comments Xubuntu http://osnews.com/thread?335188 http://osnews.com/thread?335188 I use Xubuntu on my EeeBox and it was installed by live USB, and it works well. ;) Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (motang) Comments Booting these in VMs? http://osnews.com/thread?335190 http://osnews.com/thread?335190 Has anyone had experience with these type of VMs booting into VMs? I really like the idea of having a few appliance style VMs I could boot into VMware or other environment that I could carry around on USB keys, etc.

I'd like to extend this to light weight servers that I can move around between cloud servers. Is anyone doing this? Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (oobles) Comments Mandriva ... http://osnews.com/thread?335215 http://osnews.com/thread?335215 Funny how almost nobody ever talks about Mandriva (which in this case also has a thumb drive version !!!) thought it is one of the major Linux distro !!!

Ostracism ??? Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (yvesdandoy) Comments Almost ALL these require booting from USB http://osnews.com/thread?335248 http://osnews.com/thread?335248 Many old computers dont have boot-from-usb options. So these distros are useless as travellers and those seeking public library, cafe, access.
Will be better if they run on top of existing MS windows. Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rakamaka) Comments RE: Booting these in VMs? http://osnews.com/thread?335257 http://osnews.com/thread?335257
Has anyone had experience with these type of VMs booting into VMs? I really like the idea of having a few appliance style VMs I could boot into VMware or other environment that I could carry around on USB keys, etc.


Not exactly pertaining to your statement, but

DSL has version they call "embedded" that comes with Q that can either be usb booted or booted in windows.

rakamaka,

I and some of my colleagues use the dsl embedded when we need to ssh from a windows cluster when there is not a program installed on the cluster to do so, though of course there are other ways to do that. Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jimbofluffy) Comments RE: Short bio thats about it http://osnews.com/thread?335267 http://osnews.com/thread?335267 solaris can boot off a usb thumb drive. search for milax which is a tiny ~250mb opensolaris distro that can be installed to usb thumb drives. Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Dawgmatix) Comments