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BelgianMadCow

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23. you can actually run a permanent system with persistent memory (saving settings etc) from a USB

Reply to Syrinx (Reply #17)

Sat Feb 11, 2012, 06:36 PM

Feb 2012

and it actually runs smooth without using your HD at all, it's hard to believe.

I did that with Ubuntu 10.04 and Live-USB-Installer (from a windows OS).

With that USB, you can fix puter problems like you is da guru
If you like it, you then install it to HD next to Windows if you want. I've got XP, 7 and 2 Linuxes in my boot menu and I'm no guru at all.

Then encrypt your stuff with truecrypt and say eff off to all the snooping, unless they torture you.

Just find a good place for the stick, lol

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