Thanks for the detailed answer, will try out tails with persistent storage. 🐢
@SailAway33
7 ай бұрын
Parrot also has a home edition and a roll your own. It provides a fairly decent Debian based distro. Especially if you have non-kernel wifi dongles.
@craigtegeler4677
7 ай бұрын
Persistence on a thumb drive is great! Hey Tom! how's it going?? TENS OS could even be better if only being continued to be supported for Mil use and for the Public licensing as well! I sampled it's use many moons ago, and I thought that this was just clear over the top and nearly illegal to use. I did use the Public version only! This OS has been maintained by the USAF for very obvious reasons.......security! Since it is falling out of favor no a days, I have the last remaining support version that I downloaded October 17th of last year. In some respects this public released version does resemble Raspian OS in some respects back when I first tried it out. Since then, I did not follow up on other release updates and it wasn't until I became rather curious as to whether it was still around, but sure enough, I grabbed it and placed it in a safe spot on my extended drive partition. The .iso is intact just waiting for me to burn a disk. My preferred method is by placing it onto CD and the size of it is only 429.236 KB. The version is 1.7.2_public .iso
@lastinline1958
7 ай бұрын
I use MX Linux with persistence on an SD card plugged into a usb converter to have an alternate system I can boot into for...stuff. I have boocoo settings adjustments, as well as custom wallpaper, icons. cursors, apps, etc. I can also easily transfer files from it onto my main system drive. It was easy to set up, and I can use it for maybe 2 doz boot ups before it starts to act wonky.
@anon_y_mousse
7 ай бұрын
As a longtime Slackware user, I've got my thumb drive setup with that. Good for rescue situations or to install on another computer. I know that they have instructions for installing it with a Raspberry Pi as well, and one day I may try that, but I don't do anything particularly custom with my Pi's. However, I do use the micro-SD card to boot and have all of my /home folder on a USB drive, similar to how I have my /home folder on a different hard drive for my desktop. I've changed out that USB drive for my Pi twice, as I only do every two years, and each time I upgraded the amount of storage I had. I've got a 256gb flash drive on the Pi now.
@Jojo-CY
7 ай бұрын
Thank you for introducing me to Linux. Keep up the great work! Curious, is there a concern with some of these old computers who now have Linux installed but no longer receive bios update from manufacture?
@terrydaktyllus1320
7 ай бұрын
The purpose of a PC's BIOS is to initialise enough of the system to allow the OS to load in a kernel and then take over the hardware control - once the kernel has taken over (reasonably early in the boot process) then the BIOS essentially becomes redundant, especially is modern OSes where they manage their own settings. One reason to upgrade a BIOS might be because it allows the PC to support a particular hardware change where hardware is upgradeable (which is becoming less common in modern laptops because more and more hardware is "soldered in" due to cost cutting) - so, for example, a BIOS upgrade might allow a newer CPU or more RAM to be installed and it's obviously important to initialise those properly for the OS to then take over. Some BIOS upgrades provide bug fixes but this was far more important in the days of pre "Plug and Play" OSes where the OS required the BIOS to set up the hardware - "Plug and Play" came in around the Windows 95 era so we are talking about really old OSes.
@Jojo-CY
7 ай бұрын
@@terrydaktyllus1320 Thank you for the reply. My concern tho is related to security...specifically banking. Dell, for example has released new bios version for a new model that i was looking into just this month. Details of the new bios version claims this update will help with a security vulnerability. The computer that i am currently running Linux Mint has not received any bios update in two years. This computer is not compatible officially with Windows 11 and so support by manufacture has ended. I do keep it updated via update manager. Is that enough to keep me secure going forward...even to check bank statements online?
@terrydaktyllus1320
7 ай бұрын
@@Jojo-CY It would depend entirely upon what the security vulnerability actually is. Do you have some kind of reference number for it? Usually it's a number of the format "CVE-xxxx-yyyyy" where xxxx is the year of the report and yyyyy the report number in that year. If you have that, I can look it up and give you a better opinion. The chances are that it won't put your banking at risk anyway but if you know that number, I can be more specific.
@Jojo-CY
7 ай бұрын
@@terrydaktyllus1320 I see the reference CVE-2023-39251 on Dell web site state that this is a vulnerability in that if local malicious user with high privileges....and i just stopped reading at that point. I mean, if someone is on my computer without me knowing it then i have bigger issues to worry about. Thank you for your time my friend and for answering my questions.
@up1son
4 ай бұрын
Hello, I need help, how do I make a sparrow wallet software persistent in tails, for example, I tried but couldn't?
@gavinstirling7088
6 ай бұрын
I'd like to have something like Mint on a USB with persistence which also has the ability to load custom settings and software in the way Tails works --- or in other words, Tails without having everything forced through Tor.
@SwitchedtoLinux
6 ай бұрын
You can install almost any Linux distro to a USB drive and boot it on nearly any computer, install software, save files, etc.
@gavinstirling7088
6 ай бұрын
I've beeb trying to install Mint to a USB using LVM with LUKS FDE but this has resulted in both an unbootable install (even with USB set as boot device) but also has made the existing internal Win10 unbootable too. I'm attempting this on a MS Surface Pro 6 which might be the problem. Really not sure where I'm going wrong.
@igniteyourmotivation310
7 ай бұрын
Amazing engrish on that thumbnail
@SwitchedtoLinux
7 ай бұрын
LOL....I missed that typo...curiously, I think everyone did! You are the first to mention it. I'll see about fixing it in the morning.
@STONE69_
7 ай бұрын
Making Tails Persistent just makes what Tails was made for Pointless. Might as well use another Distro. Tails is supposed to wipe itself after a session to keep a person safe, without leaving anything behind.
@SwitchedtoLinux
7 ай бұрын
Clearly you don't know how persistence in tails works. It is a new, clean drive, but you can store settings, files, etc, that are only available when you unlock it, and the OS maps it. All of the concerning things are never saved.
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