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05-20-2019, 10:07 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Canada
Distribution: distro hopper
Posts: 11,375
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Recommend me a live USB distro please?
I haven't checked the live-USB scene since Knoppix and PCLinuxOS were big 15 years ago. Now I think I something like that would be handy to have around.
What would be a good distro to run from a USB drive (no HD installation) these days?
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05-20-2019, 10:21 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Aug 2016
Location: SE USA
Distribution: openSUSE & OS/2 24/7; Debian, Knoppix, Mageia, Fedora, others
Posts: 6,610
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If your PC is over a year old, Knoppix 8.2. It's still the best at doing what it was designed to do, before any other distro, run from live media.
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05-20-2019, 10:42 PM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Australia
Distribution: Lots ...
Posts: 21,443
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I haven't used knoppix in almost that long. Any live/install CD will do - Mint, Fedora , whatever. I keep an old 4G USB that I use to test - it has whatever was last installed on one of my PCs.
Just connect to the network and install anything missing. Simple.
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05-21-2019, 01:31 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2009
Location: Japan
Distribution: Mostly Debian and CentOS
Posts: 6,726
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Hi,
since you seem to be a Slackware user, why not stick to that? Eg
https://docs.slackware.com/slackware:liveslak
Evo2.
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05-21-2019, 02:01 AM
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LQ Addict
Registered: Mar 2012
Location: Hungary
Distribution: debian/ubuntu/suse ...
Posts: 24,669
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yes, I would also suggest you the one you like (prefer).
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05-21-2019, 03:27 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Sep 2011
Location: Upper Hale, Surrey/Hants Border, UK
Distribution: One main distro, & some smaller ones casually.
Posts: 5,943
Rep: 
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Antix - MX Linux
(Reconfigurable, persistence, load to ram, etc, etc.)
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