On Wed, 20 Sept 2023 at 15:16, BCLUG via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
bitmap via talk wrote on 2023-09-20 10:02:
Does this OpenSUSE image come with a broad range of tools? The debian, ubuntu, manjaro and others I have lying around are just the very basics. Am often missing something needed.
I seem to recall that Knoppix was a popular distro for repairing broken systems. This may be out-dated though.
Also, ventoy is a tool that allows multiple bootable distros on a single USB stick, and I think allows some persistent storage.
i.e. Use ventoy to install knoppix / whatever on a stick, boot the stick and install any missing tools, configure sshd, add scripts, etc., then next boot time everything ought to be available.
I haven't yet tried this myself, just giving my 2ยข on how I'd approach things.
I started using Knoppix about 25 years ago. Development has slowed, but there are still occasional releases - the most recent being 9.1 from 2021-01. It will boot on just about anything x86 or amd64 (at 4G or less memory it switches to a simpler interface ... it may even choke down to text mode eventually?), and come up to a fairly simple GUI with pretty much all the tools you could hope for. It remains my go-to for recovery and repartitioning. I'm still using v7.7.1 (2016 - LXDE interface) because that's what's on my bootable USB stick: it has thousands of tools, but ones I checked for today include 'inxi', 'gparted', and 'lshw'. Keep in mind this is the DVD version which has more tools than the CD version. Most of the command line tools are still on the CD, the bulk of the DVD space is for less interesting stuff like Libre Office. Ventoy sounds great, haven't tried it yet. I suspect raw Knoppix will boot on more machines than Ventoy, but that's idle speculation and a quarter century of success with Knoppix talking. http://knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/index-en.html http://knoppix.net/get.php -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com