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  1. #1
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    best thumb drive linux?

    im looking for a linux distro that has a really good looking os with lots of eye candy for usb drives

    the options i see are only dream linux and slax

    can anyone enlighten me to the other options available please?

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    Re: best thumb drive linux?

    use unetbootin to get the following distros on usb drive.

    * Ubuntu (and official derivatives)
    o 6.06 LTS
    o 6.10
    o 7.04
    o 7.10
    o 8.04 LTS
    o 8.10
    o Daily CD Images
    * Debian
    o Stable/Etch
    o Testing/Lenny
    o Unstable/Sid
    * Linux Mint
    o 3.1
    o 4.0
    o 5-r1
    o 6
    * openSUSE
    o 10.2
    o 10.3
    o 11.0
    o 11.1
    o Factory
    * Arch Linux
    o 2007.08
    * Damn Small Linux
    o 4.4
    * SliTaz
    o Stable
    o Cooking
    * Puppy Linux
    o 4.00
    * FreeBSD
    o 6.3
    o 7.0
    * NetBSD
    o 4.0

    * Fedora
    o 7
    o 8
    o 9
    o 10
    o Rawhide
    * PCLinuxOS
    o 2007
    o 2008
    * Sabayon Linux
    o 4-LiteMCE
    * Gentoo
    o 2007.0
    o 2008.0
    * Zenwalk
    o 5.2
    * Slax
    o 6
    * Dreamlinux
    o 3.2
    * Elive
    o Development
    * CentOS
    o 4
    o 5
    * Mandriva
    o 2007.1
    o 2008.0
    o 2008.1
    * FaunOS
    o 0.5.4
    * Frugalware Linux
    o Stable
    o Testing
    o Current


    enjoy.

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    Re: best thumb drive linux?

    Knoppix 6 is really good, I have it on mine.
    2010 IBM Thinkpad 510, 4GB RAM, i5-540M, NVS 3100M

    Running Ubuntu 11.04

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    Re: best thumb drive linux?

    Quote Originally Posted by zmjjmz View Post
    Knoppix 6 is really good, I have it on mine.
    +1

    compiz on it looks really good.

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    Re: best thumb drive linux?

    You can install any distro onto a thumb drive. A drive is a drive is a drive; Linux doesn't care whether it's booting from a flash drive or a conventional hard drive. Personally I like Puppy and Slitaz for flash drive usage since they are small and fast. Good luck1

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    Re: best thumb drive linux?

    Puppy works well.
    Intel E5700 G41 8Gb Xubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.4, WinXP.
    Revo R3610 Win7 Pro, Ubuntu 13.04

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