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 daba
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 Puppy 3.00 Released - A Linux Distro. that will fit on your USB flash drive 
#7493649 - 10/07/07 05:53 AM (4 years, 7 months ago) |
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I'm taking this pup for a spin right now and so far pretty good for a ~100MB installation file. It creates a RAM-drive so it's pretty spiffy (for web browsing faster than my XP machine) and has a tiny thumbprint! I run everything off of my 1GB USB flash drive.
Setting up the internet was a breeze. They did a really good job on this one.
It's extremely nice to have an OS in your pocket taking up about 600MB space and having the remainder left over for your own files.
Read more on Lifehacker.
Download here.
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Re: Puppy 3.00 Released - A Linux Distro. that will fit on your USB flash drive [Re: daba]
#7493973 - 10/07/07 09:52 AM (4 years, 7 months ago) |
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I've come to the conclusion that vender's who go around touting their products will fit on a flash drive are fooling themselves into thinking they have something special when they do not. All you have to do is have something under 16GB (possibly 32GB this week, as I haven't checked on flash drive prices yet) for that claim to hold true anymore... its just not an impressing bullet point at this stage in the game.
I'm all for programmers actually working and optimizing for speed and size but our storage devices aren't holding stagnant or declining, they have never done anything but increase and show no sign of stopping this trend.
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Re: Puppy 3.00 Released - A Linux Distro. that will fit on your USB flash drive [Re: windex]
#7494441 - 10/07/07 12:28 PM (4 years, 7 months ago) |
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I have a Sandisk cruzer 4 gig micro drive. How would I go about putting this on that and booting from it?
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Re: Puppy 3.00 Released - A Linux Distro. that will fit on your USB flash drive [Re: Jrsxt]
#7494713 - 10/07/07 01:50 PM (4 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Jrsxt said:
I have a Sandisk cruzer 4 gig micro drive. How would I go about putting this on that and booting from it?
Check out the Lifehacker link. It's all right there.
>> windex: What are you talking about?
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Re: Puppy 3.00 Released - A Linux Distro. that will fit on your USB flash drive [Re: daba]
#7497779 - 10/08/07 01:48 PM (4 years, 7 months ago) |
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I think Windex misses the days when Puppy v1.xx fit on <128mB flash drives.
Damn Small Linux and Feather Linux achieved the same trick.
As flash drive capacities have grown so have the distros that are portable.
If you must use a smaller flash drive then get an older USB-style distro.
It is about convenience, portability and anonimity. It is no longer necessarily about some impressive feat of fitting a working distro on a cramped flash drive.
Having run a few of these distros I must say that using one on a largish flash drive beats the hell out of using a liveCD/DVD what with the faster access times and the spare storage for user-created files. LiveCD/DVD continues to take the cake for being the best thing to blow a n00b's mind with and then hand him the disk to keep for himself.
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Re: Puppy 3.00 Released - A Linux Distro. that will fit on your USB flash drive [Re: debianlinux]
#7498674 - 10/08/07 04:53 PM (4 years, 7 months ago) |
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well it kinda sucks because all i have is my jetta 7800 laptop right now...no cd burner or dvd burner...only DVD rom. I was wanting to check this out.
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daba
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Re: Puppy 3.00 Released - A Linux Distro. that will fit on your USB flash drive [Re: Jrsxt]
#7498889 - 10/08/07 05:37 PM (4 years, 7 months ago) |
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The entire distro. fits on a 128MB disk it's just you won't have much room left to store anything else on it.
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Re: Puppy 3.00 Released - A Linux Distro. that will fit on your USB flash drive [Re: debianlinux]
#7499912 - 10/08/07 10:06 PM (4 years, 7 months ago) |
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My point is that It's just not impressive to fit something small into a large container. If anything the impressiveness should be of the size flash drives have gotten to. It may not boot, but vista will also fit onto a flash drive.
Now because I'm too lazy to look and what the hell, lets keep the topic alive, do they offer up an installer or set of scripts for existing linux or windows install to install the OS on to the flash drive and allow you to add and remove apps and utilities?
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Re: Puppy 3.00 Released - A Linux Distro. that will fit on your USB flash drive [Re: windex]
#7500145 - 10/08/07 11:33 PM (4 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yea. The download is a LiveCD maker after which the first install gives you an option to move everything to a flash drive. They have a neat package manager called PETget which is pretty standard. It's pretty much autonomous.
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Re: Puppy 3.00 Released - A Linux Distro. that will fit on your USB flash drive [Re: daba]
#7502295 - 10/09/07 04:29 PM (4 years, 7 months ago) |
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I may have to check it out then... I've always wanted a bootable flash drive but Ive never liked the software that the devs think people want. And I've never had the patience to follow through a how to of making my own.
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Re: Puppy 3.00 Released - A Linux Distro. that will fit on your USB flash drive [Re: windex]
#7503559 - 10/09/07 09:56 PM (4 years, 7 months ago) |
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Why not? I had the thing working in 30 minutes.
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