Linked by Rahul on Mon 27th Oct 2008 20:33 UTC
Linux Lifehacker reviews some of the popular Linux distributions that have provided tools to make Live USB keys, a easy task. These include Damn Small Linux, Fedora with it's cross platform liveusb-creator , Puppy Linux and Xubuntu. All systems were tested with UNetbootin except for Fedora which was run using it's own liveusb-creator. For every distribution, the minimum requirements, image size, boot time, features, things that need improvement and which users it is recommended for, is listed.
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Short bio thats about it
by lord-storm on Mon 27th Oct 2008 21:11 UTC
lord-storm
Member since:
2005-07-12

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...

RE: Short bio thats about it
by Dawgmatix on Tue 28th Oct 2008 15:23 in reply to "Short bio thats about it"
Dawgmatix Member since:
2008-09-28

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.

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