IN BRIEF
Porteus is a Slackware-based 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
Porteus 5 is the latest edition of one of the best portable and well-established distros. The Slackware 15-based distro now offers seven separate ISO images, each with a different desktop, from fully-fledged options such as Cinnamon and KDE to lightweight ones such as LXQt, LXDE, Openbox and more.
The ISOs of most editions weigh in at around 300MB thanks to Porteus' design that keeps the distro in a compressed state, only creating the familiar Linux directory structure on the fly during boot.
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