Thankfully, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, now seems to have endorsed the Universal USB Linux Installer available at. This was documented poorly and failed as often as it succeeded. In the old days, I used to create a CD, boot to it and then use the included Startup Disk Creator from within Ubuntu to create a bootable copy on a USB flash drive. I was pleasantly surprised that the Ubuntu download page now includes instructions for installing the system onto a USB flash from Windows, OS X and, of course, Ubuntu. My USB flash drive with Linux was getting a bit old, so I set out to create a new one with the latest version (10.10) of Ubuntu. One downside to USB Linux compared to CD Linux is that older computers can't boot from a USB flash drive. To me, having a copy of Linux that's only used for online banking seems safe enough, especially if its kept updated with patches. The flip side of this argument is that bug fixes can't be installed to the system. The truly paranoid will note that a Linux Live CD is safer because it absolutely can't be infected with a virus. And, flash drives offer a choice of whether or not to save system changes. ![]() Also, running Linux off a USB flash drive can be much faster than running it off a CD. For one thing, many more computers have USB ports than have optical drives. I travel with a bootable copy of Linux on a USB flash drive. Linux is the only safe option for Windows users interested in online banking.īootable copies of Linux used to mean Live CDs, but that ship has mostly sailed. ![]() No amount of Defensive Computing for Windows can ever be close to perfect.
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