Should you run Linux straight from a USB? I tried it, and here's my expert advice

Thanks to the flexibility of Linux, it's possible to run the OS directly from a USB drive, but is that the right approach? Here are the pros and cons.
XDA Developers on MSN

Impression is like Rufus for Linux, and it works brilliantly

If you compare Impression with Rufus, they are similar in concept but differ in design aspects. Impression tries to woo you ...
Ars Technica

trying to boot memtest86 DVD ISO in eg virtualbox

The "Bootable" legacy ISO you've used is in fact not bootable, it relies on CDROM emulation provided by BIOS. VMs don't usually do this sort of emulation. If you set the guest OS to something like ...
XDA Developers on MSN

My favorite tool for booting Linux ISOs now works with FreeBSD 15.0

Ventoy 1.1.08 now supports FreeBSD 15.0; boot its ISO from my multi-ISO USB. Ventoy supports 1,300+ tested ISOs; packing dozens of systems on one stick is easy. FreeBSD 15.0 introduces pkgbase; use ...
Ars Technica

Extract a boot.img from a cdrom/.iso?

I've got a rh linux based distro that was not packaged with a boot.img and I would like to be able to modify the .iso a bit to create a custom kickstart cdrom.<BR><BR>Is there a way to extract the ...