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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Run Linux from USB and use storage only for... storage: yay or nay (and why)? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I am just about to set up my new Linux machine, which will be used to convert analog video and audio to digital video and audio. Is there any reason why I shouldn't run the system off of a live USB stick (say, a good quality one from Sandisk), that is, without installing Linux on the hard drive and not setting up a boot partition, a system partition, and all that?

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[–] TeaWithDani@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Running from USB usually means it boots from USB and then is stored on your RAM. If you don't write to the drive at all, the USB will usually be fine.

I have XigmaNAS (FreeBSD) setup like that. Works fine if the OS is really small.

[–] Tumbleweeds5@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

XigmaNAS user here... Only downside to that is that you will only find out the USB drive is bad when rebooting (happened to me once). But keeping good backups for the configuration makes recovering a 5 min thing.

[–] TeaWithDani@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yup! I'm considering burning my config and distro to a CD-ROM. Impossible to alter on boot lol

My NAS happens to have a CD/DVD drive for some reason lol