One word of warning is that I see you want to run from those small USB sticks. And if you down load large file in Fatdog it stores them outside its savefile space so that it does get overloaded. Like for instance Wifi passwords and documents. I am not sure whether you are running with persistence so that changes that you make are kept. Therefore it can run on very old machines if needed.
Another is that it was originally intended to run on Windows 98 machines and probably still can. You have to be careful though but in all the years I have used it I have never had an accident (famous last words). One of the advantages of Puppy is that it is so easy to do anything on any of the hard disk or other OSs since you run as root. If I run KNOPPIX from a USB 3 on it that also runs well with all the bling it has got. To me it shows that you don't need a powerful machine for practically most work. It runs very fast with very quick boot times. I have taken the Chrome OS of and run Budgie (Ubuntu), Antergos and various Puppies loaded on a 128 GB ssd I put in. One of my machines that I take away with me is a Chromebook Acer C720 with 2GB of RAM and not a very powerful CPU.
I hadn't thought of looking for other versions, but that is a great idea the FAT32 partition didn't think of that.
I have been using YUMI and have a multiboot ISO with about a dozen different ISO's on there, but I didn't want to wear it out using it all the time, so got a 64GB USB stick just to have Linux installed on. Partition a bit of the USB stick as FAT32 and use that when you want to transfer some of your files to a running Windows machine.Yeh great tip. Partition a bit of the USB stick as FAT32 and use that when you want to transfer some of your files to a running Windows machine. I also use KNOPPIX which again is meant for USB operation and is very impressive.Īnd there are others meant for USB sticks. And another big advantage is that whilst lightweight they are packed with many programmes and they load into RAM and work from there and so are very fast. I use Puppy Linux and its relation Fatdog64 with the advantage that they both have what is called a frugal install so that the Distro is all in a folder and that means you can have various versions all on the same USB stick. There are Distros that are far better for USB stick running and are meant for it. Mint would not be my first choice for a Distro to run from a USB. I tend to use EXT2 file system but have used F2FS. USB sticks only have a limited life and that for me rules out EXT4 although I have read somewhere that the journal can be turned off. I avoid journaled file systems with a USB stick because they do many more write and reads to do the jounaling.