What are some neat, useful, and/or underappreciated Linux distros? I plan on making a Multi-bootaable pendrive from a 64GB USB. I already have Kali and Slax already, what others would you recommend which fit the guidelines below?
Guidelines: -lightweight (doesn't use much space memory wise in case i like it and make it persistent or something) -minimum bloat (bloat gives me autistic anneurisms so pls no) -please explain what is interesting/useful/underappreciated about the distro in question, i'm not telepathic and i don't plan on researching unless it catches my eye.
I plan on adding maybe 1 or two more to the boot and that will be it so bring your best foot forward.
Gparted Live not linux but MiniXP I'm not sure what you need from, them, but happy to answer questions
Jackson Perez
None of the OS you have fit your guidelines, but i can tell Alpine or Sta.li would
alpine: absolutely no bloat, musl, apk which is pretty good stali: less bloat than that, musl, all binaries are statically compiler, better fs structure, updates via git
Carter Butler
Gentoo
Grayson Rodriguez
>muh sysvinit >muh minimalism
Aiden Brown
It's openRC
Gavin Barnes
void linux
Carter Hernandez
>minimum bloat >Kali
What did you mean by this?
Jordan Morales
What is MiniXP?
Alpine and Sta.li sound pretty good senpai, gonna check em out now.
sounds rad, gonna check that out too.
If you happen to know of a less bloated pen-testing distro i would be more than happy to use it.
James Nguyen
MiniXP is what it sounds like, a stripped down version of Windows XP. I've only ever used it as a rescue disc, don't know what the other user uses it for.
Christian Peterson
>void I bet you watch that fucking gay horse show and think that Rarity is best horse you fucking slut!
Josiah Taylor
Kodi
Thank me later sempai
Connor Barnes
Well, with certain sets of software, it allows you to do what you need to recover shit with windows, or run a bios flash, if needed. It can run anything windows xp professional 32 bit can
Benjamin Jenkins
I checked. Apparently Gparted is a partitioning software? Am i missing something?
Alpine and Sta.li are both great, probably gonna add them.
MiniXP could be very useful.
Void is a no no; based on what i have gathered about it.
Sounds very useful if a need to switch to a Windows operating system.
checking it now.
Bentley Parker
Hiren's Boot, right?
Aiden Rivera
>Kodi >open source TV boot. Gonna save it in a folder, otherwise not what i'm looking for.
Christopher Sanchez
Bedrock Linux
Sabotage Linux
Alpine is great, but needs more packages (I have no idea why ranger isn't available), because building packages can be quite a pain in the ass
Void really is the best for just working and being minimal despite the lame pony meme that brainlet arch bloat users try to prostitute
The idea behind nixos is cool, but it's so bloated.
The bsds are interesting, but performance isn't up to snuff for routine tasks. Yeah yeah, save your links to phoronix.
Jason Price
> Void is a no no based on what retards told me
Yeah, don't try for yourself
Cameron Hernandez
stop shilling void or it'll become a community of screeching 14 year olds just like arch did
Christopher Jenkins
chakra linux.
like arch without the bullshit
Lincoln Nguyen
Damn Small Linux. It's damn small (approx 50mb), it's Linux and it has good out of the box functionality including firefox as a web browser.
Carter Green
I think you meant Slackware? Definitely think you're talking about Slackware.
Grayson Parker
>community of screeching 14 year olds what would be bad about that?
Jason Bailey
GParted Live other anons recommend is a distro bootable from CD or USB gparted.org/livecd.php
I also recommend SystemRescueCd which comes preloaded with several recovery tools, the only downside is it comes with zsh which you have to change to bash for some operations system-rescue-cd.org
Another distro I recommend is STD which is a forensics tool many pentesters used before kali s-t-d.org/
For a privacy/anonymity session use heads, a better Tails to browse anonymously with Tor and heads actually respects your freedom and privacy by only including audited code and no systemd heads.dyne.org/
For stuff like upgrading BIOS many use FreeDOS, yes is a DOS but comes with a package manager and inherit tools made for DOS you can use freedos.org/
If you ever want to make something lighter or more customized to your needs but you are not ready for Linux From Scratch then go for Source Mage GNU/Linux, its worth it and I am migrating my computers to it sourcemage.org/Comparison with Gentoo