USB drives are a LOT slower than a real drive. That said if you'd been paying attention last month I did this very thing. I ran Puppy Linux as my sole OS for 2 weeks when the Windows installation on my laptop failed abruptly on day 2 of a 14 day trip. It ran swimmingly, for a home user Puppy gives you everything you need at a level that most people can understand.
The linux snobs of course hate it, I think because its too "easy". I like it because nothing is locked out like you'd get with Ubuntu. That said there is some stuff thats pretty hard to load (no unetbootin, I've yet to get virtualbox to work) so I need to try something else. Anyway a lightweight OS will indeed work off a USB drive. Puppy in particular runs great. At some point I'm going to repurpose my old laptop to be my new desktop/media center machine with Puppy on a key. Most of the computing we do is just watching video anyway so it'll work fine and use less power... -Curt Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 08:20:04 +0930 From: Hendrik and Fay <[email protected]> To: Mercedes Discussion List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Ancient hard drives on USB Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Question is, you can buy a 64 gig usb flash drive for less than 59 bucks, would it be feasible to run your OS off usb, what is the performance like versus SSD? Obviously for a portable machine there is the disadvantage of having a stick hanging out of the laptop but for a desktop that is not a drama. Hendrik who is pretty flash On 20/08/13 07:39, Gary Hurst wrote: > optical is dying. solid state is the only thing that makes sense in any > new system you buy, at least for the disc the OS is on. i think it was $59 > for a 64 gig. i feel bad about not getting it but i feel stupid upgrading > my LONG obsolete powermac once again _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
