Making a persistent live USB with Linux to take on-the-go
If I was to summarize all advantages of using GNU/Linux (and free software in general) in one word, it would be flexibility. Flexibility practically enables everything else that is good with Free Software: you can have the most secure system ever, or relax a little and have a very usable setup. You can have a high end, beautiful and easy to use system, or go minimalist and have just the bare essentials as a tiny, highly efficient one. In short, you can have anything.
Perhaps what's the most definitive proof of this flexibility is the power to create and use live media. If you ever installed GNU/Linux even once, you've probably been through it: download ISO image, burn to USB (because who uses CD or DVD today anyway?) and boot. Live medium Linux Distributions are the self-proclaimed hacker's swiss-army knives and I've used the trick for the longest of times, but only more recently have I started using the next level trick: per...
Klaus Jónsson Zimmermann
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