heimchenJul 19, 2023

What portable utilities do you carry with you.

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/875322

What portable utilities do you carry with you. - tchncs

I personally always have one USB stick with me that has a live usb boot of Fedoraon it, but I just saw the new video from Linus tech tips and thought about extending it a bit. He mostly talked about windows tools, but I think I will add - https://www.ventoy.net/en/download.html [https://www.ventoy.net/en/download.html] for maybe an additional Linux light version - https://github.com/TheWaWaR/simple-http-server [https://github.com/TheWaWaR/simple-http-server] if I have to share files from a broken Computer or so. What are you using or do you have recommendations?

Show threadHolyginz
Is having an OS boot on a USB really all that useful? Serious question.
Jul 19, 2023 at 7:29pmWeb
Show threadPunkieJul 19, 2023

Maybe not the same, but a knoppix CD was part of my toolkit for field work for many years. Stuff I did with it:

  • Retrieve or fix data from systems that could not boot.
  • Scan systems infected with boot viruses (clamscan), and wipe entire drives if necessary
  • Test various network issues: DHCP, DNS, tcpdump, and so on because Windows tools were pretty bad for a while
  • Bypass various Windows restrictions on user’s systems
Show threadSilentStormsJul 19, 2023
It can be handy for recovery
Show threadheimchenJul 19, 2023
Definitely, besides playing around with it and booting it on random Laptops, I revived two notebooks on the go. One had a broken windows install(somehow the main C drive nuked itself into 8 separate partitions) and she was still running Linux 1 month after that so I guess a win, and the other windows “Laptop” was super laggy(3-4 Gib of ram), but I granted the machine another two solid years(one time laptop run out of power during an big update, rest was great).