Comments on: Battle of the thumb drive linux distros

By: David

David — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:59:46 +0000

LUbuntu? Peppermint OS?

By: iamonpuppylinuxrightnow

iamonpuppylinuxrightnow — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:37:28 +0000

i dont see how anyone likes DSL. it’s not for a beginner anyway.. puppy linux is really nice, especially if your hard drive blows up. if you have low ram it will suck, but you can kinda make up for it by letting it use alot of your flash drive.
puppy linux= win. for looks, for hardware support, for having flashplayer built in..
you can’t play quakelive on it.. but there is a shit -ton of built in features. burners, rippers, players, mixers, recorders, editors, viewers, scanners, download accelerator, you2pup youtube downloader, torrent creator/downloader.
and a nice GUI.. can anyone say that about damnsmalllinux?

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By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:56:09 +0000

“Linux is getting there but still has a while to go thakn you for allthe useful info though”

Really? I cant think of anything more useful!

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By: Name

Name — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 06:05:58 +0000

Hmm.. It seems that it really depends on what ur looking for in your distro, but personally I enjoy backtrack. but fedora is also nice, its really personal opinion

By: sysaprendiz

sysaprendiz — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:43:26 +0000

Good

By: mike

mike — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:45:16 +0000

FaunOS anyone? <3

By: nubie

nubie — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:37:01 +0000

DSL is not so hot even for the older hardware because the X server only supports 60hz, so with a CRT monitor I got rioting headaches from the eyestrain.

I just got Puppy Linux and I think it rocks, still too slim on media support, but that isn’t important for an email/web box.

The real problem is lack of USB boot support, but if you check out something like this you can use it for almost any PC: http://www.logicsupply.com/products/t512mdom40vs

I am thinking of getting one loaded with PuppyLinux and BartPE to help me in my freelance PC repair work. Maybe even using NTlite set to always boot in safe mode :) I get a lot of people who need a volume check before their PC will boot, but after the check their PC runs fine for years. I think it is overheating and the PC writes some garbage to the disk.

By: London Escort Agency

London Escort Agency — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:46:29 +0000

Linux is getting there but still has a while to go thakn you for allthe useful info though

By: sly

sly — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:31:58 +0000

dsl works great for old hardware, but not new hardware. kinda defeats the purpose of a usb stick boot since older hardware doesn’t support that. works wonders with a cd boot on my old pentium mmx laptops though. I’ll have to look up backtrack. My favorite live linux though is helix mainly because I generally use a live linux to help people recover data from windows hard drives when windows hoses the registry.

By: spacecoyote

spacecoyote — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:10:18 +0000

No *BSD?

By: pksjaveed

pksjaveed — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:43:38 +0000

backtrack all the way

By: icefox

icefox — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:43:08 +0000

AWESOME! I just bought an old laptop from someone and I just started looking for an os that might run smoothly on a 10 year old comp.

The guy I bought it from had xp on it, so this is eerily convenient.

By: monster

monster — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:39:25 +0000

so it says backtrack is supported, but it’s not in the pulldown list, are there any special parameters i should list when i use the “disk image” option?

By: Skitchin

Skitchin — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:56:32 +0000

backtrack gets my vote! haha, looks like we know hackaday’s favorite bootable distro.