Posted on 10/29/2014 3:48:38 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Apple interest?
You can also just make a bootable disk (CD or DVD) and run it off that.
It will be much slower on a USB drive or disk than an installed on HD version. But it lets you see if your hardware is compatible.
I can’t think of any reason to install Linux on a Mac. On a windows PC I use Cygwin for my daily work. The Mac has everything Linux has (more or less) already.
My wife’s laptop runs SLAX Linus on a 8 gig flash drive. It works great.
BTTT
Now the question is will Linux greet visitors from the NSA?
People trying this should also note that USB drives can vary greatly in speed.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/usb-3.0-thumb-drive-review,3477.html
I’m rubbing Netrunner Linux on an older laptop and absolutely love it.
If you keep doing that your monitor will go dim.
How is a flash drive with no moving parts slower than a HDD that is spinning with a head that has to physically move across the sectors to read the data?
Bkmk for a future try at Linux...
USB works with Ubuntu, too.
As long as people realize the speed issue is due to the medium they are using, it should be a decent evaluation experience.
I might try this out but try to create a separate partition on my hard drive to do it. Hard drives are faster than USB aren’t they?
This article was trying to explain how to test it without making any lasting changes to your system--trying to remove any objections from that direction.
If you’ve got a rooted Android phone, you can skip using a flash drive altogether and use the DriveDroid app to try Linux.
DriveDroid comes with a catalog of Linux images that you can download straight to your phone. Once you have an image, you just tap it to select it from the DriveDroid main screen, choose to make your phone appear like a CD drive or USB drive, and then connect your phone to your computer.
Then, you just follow the same sort of BIOS boot selection that OP talks about.
Using a phone with DriveDroid will give you much better performance than a flash drive, and since it’s attached to your phone, which you probably carry at all times, it’ll always be available.
I would recommend anyone SSD to run your system. It is a flash -memory type drives with no moving parts typical to USB sticks and much faster than HDD on average.
I think installing OS on one of these is the most cost effective way to make your computer faster to date.
They are quite expensive for units larger than 256 GB to fully replace HDD technology by now, but sufficient to run system and demanding application already.
I saw an Apple Ibook G4 at the pawn shop for $99
I wonder how it would run with Linux?
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