Porteus 5.0
Mayank Sharma has a soft spot for portable distros, and wonders if the latest Porteus can wean him away from his all-time favourite, Slax.
IN BRIEF
Porteus is a Slackwarebased portable distro that’s been designed and optimised to run from all kinds of removable media, including USB disks, SD cards and even CDs. It offers multiple desktop environments, from lightweight ones to fully fledged desktops, for appealing to a wide number of people
SPECS
Minimum: CPU: 32- or 64-bit x86 processor
Memory: 768MB
HDD: not required
Build: x86, x86-64
The bare-bones Porteus environment straight out of the box is lightning quick, and doesn’t slow down much even after it’s been fleshed out.