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What do you use your USB flash drive for? Have you considered running Linux from it? A Linux Live USB flash drive is a great way to try out Linux without making any changes to your computer. It's also ...

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One of the best things a Windows user can do for Defensive Computing is to have a bootable copy of Linux on hand. The classic reason being to rescue a broken copy of the operating sytem, but the much ...

Besides the bootloader, the only other obvious thing is changing /etc/fstab. Although a 'grep -r sda1 /etc/*' (or whatever the USB device name is) wouldn't be a bad idea.

The Intel Compute Stick is a tiny computer that lets you run desktop apps on a TV when you plug the stick into an HDMI port. Intel offers Windows and Ubuntu Linux versions of the Compute Stick: but ...

I can boot off the USB installer, and get the option to pick "Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS" (or the other three options), but after picking one the monitor actually goes to sleep (and this is repeatable ...

Windows: Having a full Linux operating system on a USB thumb drive is pretty neat. Having that OS customized, with your own favorite apps and all your settings intact, is far more helpful. This ...

Intel launched a tiny computer called the Intel Compute Stick earlier this year. It looks like a chunky USB flash drive, but instead of plugging it into your computer to add storage, you plug it into ...