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What portable utilities do you carry with you. (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by heimchen@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I personally always have one USB stick with me that has a live usb boot of Fedoraon it, but I just saw the new video from Linus tech tips and thought about extending it a bit.
He mostly talked about windows tools, but I think I will add

https://www.ventoy.net/en/download.html for maybe an additional Linux light version
https://github.com/TheWaWaR/simple-http-server if I have to share files from a broken Computer or so.

What are you using or do you have recommendations?

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[–] jws_shadotak@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Hiren's boot CD

It's a small ISO with tons of utilities on it. It's great for recovering data if shit goes really south. I always have one handy.

Edit: toss it onto your ventoy stick

[–] niisyth@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Hiren's boot CD is still kicking around?

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which Hiren's boot? The old official 15.2 or the new PE version?

[–] jws_shadotak@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I use the new PE version since it's still maintained and has had something to fix any of my problems so far.

https://www.hirensbootcd.org/