Lightweight Portable Linux Distros

[Carlos Montemayor]

Hi guys!

So I have a 16 gb usb flash drive. I wanted to install a lightweight linux distro that is persistent. I knew I could do this with Ubuntu, but this would take up too much disk space. I've done this before with Unetbootin. I already tried Puppy Linux USB but I don't like the look of Puppy Linux. So, what distro would you suggest? Note that the USB should be able to install persistent applications and save documents on the storage space of the USB. And preferrably a Debian/Ubuntu based distro with LXDE and XFCE environments. Thanks 😀

 

[skittle]

I use alphaOS.
http://alphaos.tuxfamily.org

 

[bjsm]

Concrete examples where you would use that?

 

[skittle]

Concrete examples where you would use that?

Use case is quite simple:

Keep a full installation on a USB drive that can be moved to multiple PC's.

Many specialty distrobutions, like AlphaOS and PuppyLinux exist soley for this use case.

 

[Aristotelian]

Ubuntu should fit easily in 16 GB. The minimum requirement is for 5 GB. Moving to a lightweight DE will help clear some space but won't make a huge difference. I would recommend LUbuntu and XUbuntu.

 

[skittle]

Ubuntu should fit easily in 16 GB. The minimum requirement is for 5 GB. Moving to a lightweight DE will help clear some space but won't make a huge difference. I would recommend LUbuntu and XUbuntu.

Obviously you have never actually tried to have a real portable OS on a USB drive. Regular distributions like *buntu perform terrible.