Now that youve had a chance to look over the contenders for top portable operating system, its time to cast your vote to determine who will win the title.Subscribe Jason Fitzpatrick 41209 12:00PM Filed to: Hive Five Hive Five Portable Operating System Linux Portable Portable Applications Flash Drive USB Drives Top 140 2 Why restrict yourself to merely carrying around your data on a thumb drive Take your entire operating system on your flash drive with the excellent portable operating systems youll find inside this weeks Hive Five.Earlier this week we asked you to share your favorite portable operating system and to tell us what makes it dear to your heart.
Windows Os Portable Operating SystemYou responded with hundreds of nominations, and were back with the top six contenders for the title of best portable operating system. Six contenders in a Hive Five contest Due to a tie within the top five contenders, a sixth contender has squeezed into the race. Weighing in at under 100MB, it can easily be loaded on everything from a CD to a USB drive with little fuss. The user interface is friendly even for a non-Linux user, and the basic tools you need for popular portable operations like partitioning and file recovery are readily availablealthough its just as great for web browsing and basic computing. Weve already taken Puppy Linux for a walk, so check it out if you want a closer look at this friendly portable OS. Click to viewBooting Linux from an external drive with the applications and settings of your Read more Advertisement Slax Advertisement Slax takes a very user friendly and novel approach to portable computing. Before you even download the distribution you can customize it right from the download site by adding and subtracting modules based on your needs. If youre completely new to Linux and setting up a portable operating system, Slax will get you up and running with the tools you want in no time flat. Ubuntu Advertisement The same qualities that make Ubuntu so popular as a desktop operating system and live CD bring it a lot of popularity as a portable operating system. Ubuntu isnt as small as some of the other contenders here, but thanks to a number of factors, including strong saturation in the Linux market and an easy to use tool built right for flash-drive installations, Ubuntu makes a great addition to your portable drive. BackTrack Advertisement If BackTrack were your friend, it would be the friend you have who keeps a survival kit in an Altoids tin, a length of rope in his jacket just in case, and a folding shovel in his briefcase. BackTrack isnt the most lightweight and certainly not the fluffiest portable operating system in this Hive Five, but it is a serious tool packed with 300 applications covering everything from packet sniffing to hot spot probing to brute force password attacks. If youve never used BackTrack, check out our screenshot tour. BackTrack is a Security-Focused Live CD Packed With System Tools BackTrack was the winner of our recent Hive Five for best Live CD, so we decided to take it for a Read more Advertisement CrunchBang Advertisement CrunchBang is a fork of the Ubuntu development tree, sporting an ultra-minimal interface with a heavy emphasis on media playback. Out of the box, for example, Firefox has Flash support and VLC can play a variety of media including DVDs. Check out our CrunchBang screenshot tour for a closer look at this attractive portable system. CrunchBang is a Speedy, Dark-Themed Linux Desktop CrunchBang, an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution that sports a snappy, low-drag interface and is Read more Advertisement Damn Small Linux Advertisement Damn Small Linux is in fact really damn small. How small Originally designed as an experiment to see how much Linux awesomeness could be packed into 50MB business card CD, Damn Small Linux hasnt strayed from its origins as an absolutely tiny portable distribution. Just because Damn Small Linux is tiny doesnt mean its underpowered, though. It includes Firefox, a VNC viewer, file managers, instant messaging clients, and even a web server.
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