I've gotten tired of using Linux live discs, so I've decided to setup a flash drive as a portable Linux drive. I'm going to use it for PC rescue, server testing, and a second OS for my work laptop for when I need Unix tools, so basically a regular desktop.
Does anyone have any experience this this, and what have you found out?
I'm going to need to get a flash drive since my 16GB drive fried itself when I started to try this the other day. I'm looking at the Patriot Xporter XT Rage since the reads and writes are fairly symmetrical.
Are there any other drives that might work better?
My main distro candidates are ArchBang or CrunchBang. Knoppix is a, distant, third option, but I'd rather not strip a bunch of junk out after the first install. I'm leaning towards using A!, but I need to see if will have all the packages I want without compiling from the AUR. #! should have all the packages I need, but I'm not really a Debian fan.
Patriot Xporter XT Rage
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