Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 71.135.56.152]
on May 22, 2008 07:59 PM
Gary and others,
All of you have focused on the following criteria for comparison purposes :
- Ease of installation, ease of usage and ease of upgrading
- Cost to acquire the pendrive-distro or the lack thereof
- Native way to run the distro directly from flashdrive
- Presence or absence of certain key applications
- Size of the distro's installation download
I'd heartily agree that the fine-tailoring of these criteria as applied to one's particular needs and circumstances is the way to go. I'd add and refine some criteria of my own here :
- the capability of using those USB pendrives still around of LESS THAN 1 GB in size for the combination of booting, data storage and add-on apps (e.g., thumbdrives of 512MB, 256MB and even all the way down to 128MB sizes!)
- the availability of decent to excellent forums/wikis for effectively finding help using the pendrive distros, given the wide variety of existing HW devices
- the availability of good, fast, and running mirror download sites
There are likely to be other criteria or refinements of the above.
Fedora 9 Live USB version, Slax, GoblinX, Knoppix, ... etc would certainly all be worth looking into further as good USB flash drive distros.
An excellent benefit from the article and its comments, Gary, is that one indeed _CAN_ choose and use the "best" USB flashdisk distro(s) for whatever specific purpose(s) one requires. A++
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 71.135.56.152] on May 22, 2008 07:59 PMAll of you have focused on the following criteria for comparison purposes :
- Ease of installation, ease of usage and ease of upgrading
- Cost to acquire the pendrive-distro or the lack thereof
- Native way to run the distro directly from flashdrive
- Presence or absence of certain key applications
- Size of the distro's installation download
I'd heartily agree that the fine-tailoring of these criteria as applied to one's particular needs and circumstances is the way to go. I'd add and refine some criteria of my own here :
- the capability of using those USB pendrives still around of LESS THAN 1 GB in size for the combination of booting, data storage and add-on apps (e.g., thumbdrives of 512MB, 256MB and even all the way down to 128MB sizes!)
- the availability of decent to excellent forums/wikis for effectively finding help using the pendrive distros, given the wide variety of existing HW devices
- the availability of good, fast, and running mirror download sites
There are likely to be other criteria or refinements of the above.
Fedora 9 Live USB version, Slax, GoblinX, Knoppix, ... etc would certainly all be worth looking into further as good USB flash drive distros.
An excellent benefit from the article and its comments, Gary, is that one indeed _CAN_ choose and use the "best" USB flashdisk distro(s) for whatever specific purpose(s) one requires. A++
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