My Grand Overall of Linux Iso Images

My Grand Overall of Linux Iso Images

I have only 360GB hard disk in my NUC.

Even then, it has three Debian instances and Netrunner installed.

I have 50GB NTFS partition for iso images.

I left two big SATA hard disks at home, fearing my luggage will exceed.

I traveled by Sri-Lankan Airways to Singapore and by Qantas to Australia.

It was the cheapest flight available at that time. Needless to say, the Sri-Lankan Airbus was very dirty. 

Even the Ceylon Tea was of poor quality. At least they should have given a good quality, Ceylon Tea.

I promote Ceylon Tea all my life.

How can I recommend it?

I have no space for additional iso images and I decided to install them in 12 of my USB sticks, so that if I need space in future.

I would list them in priority wise but I have to say Damn Small Linux cannot be written to a USB stick. I just wrote it to 4GB USB stick and it lacks the  ESP bootable partition of a few MBs for the initial booting sequence. 

I hope the guys developing it would rectify this minor discrepancy.

Its Window Manager is Fluxbox.

I mounted it on Genome BOX utility and it has good selection of utilities including my favorite Abiword. It is less then 700MB for a CD disk but I found an image which was 1.2GB some where in the iso archives.  Certainly, not at Linux Freedom site.

I am going to stop talking about Linux for a little while.

My list of favorites are:

1. Debian Gnome 12.9.0, the latest (3.5GB)

2. Debian CD 1 of 12.9.0 of 4GB (not the Source image that is for developers)

This has all the desktops from Gnome to Cinnamon to Mate. One has to select the desktop at boot time.

3. Debian Mate 12.9.0 (3.3GB)

Please not Debian keep it under 4GB to fit into old USB sticks.

4. Parrot Security-6.3.2 (5.9GB)

Parrot is much better than Kali Linux. I have never used Kali (Indian Blood thirsty female God) in my life. I am not a hacker but I can do that if one try any one tries to trick me. It is only a safety valve but I use Parrot Linux.

5. Parrot -6.3.2 Home Edition (2.6GB)

6. Linux Mint-22.1- Cinnamon (3GB)

7. Manjaro - Gnome-24.2.1-2412 (4.1GB)

8. Ton of old and new Puppy Linux images filling my download folder from  250 MB to 1GB.

9. Notable mention of AVL Linux MX Edition which has moved to Debian kernel and has Enlightenment Desktop. 

My attempt to download both direct and torrent failed. So I decided to try Catbird Linux.

10. Elive Linux 

11. Catbird Linux 2.8.0 4.7GB

It is Debian Sid derivative for media with AI enhanced.

I personally do not like AI Technology.

That is my favorite on a USB stick but regular guy of course, is Debian which never failed me for over a decade or more.

I have my old flames Mandriva and SimplyMepis for demonstrations.

I have deleted Endless OS from this list, simply because my old ACER Laptop boots only with a CD/DVD. 

These Microsoft Guys have blocked the booting with USB. It had Microsoft installed and I erased it using TRUE OS CD booted and mounted and linked to the Internet. True OS is defunct, (than you) but Free BSD is live and well. 

This how and when, I started hating Microsoft and Windows.

Berkeley (BSD) or Berkeley Software Development.

FreeBSD is a free-software Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). The first version was released in 1993 developed from 386BSD, the first fully functional and free Unix clone and has since continuously been the most commonly used BSD-derived operating system.

AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969[1] at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others. 

They started the C language which started the Free Coding.