Re: [NF] has anyone played with Linux on a thumb drive?

On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 11:59 PM, Michael Madigan mmadi10699@yahoo.com wrote:

That was only done in emergencies

Yup, if a ship was boarded or a camp overrun, there are procedures to destroy classified info.

So, MM, not to drag the thread back on-topic, but did you have any followup questions on using an old machine with USB booting a Linux distro? I've done this for years to recover hard drive problems or to test-drive a new distro before installing, but I usually end up installing the distro, as it's faster and doesn't have the space restrictions a USB drive does. These days, though, with multi-gigabyte thumb drives so cheap, it could certainly be done. As someone said earlier in the thread, a slow CPU will still be slow.