Multi-boot USB drives
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As far as we’re concerned, the birth of live installable distributions remains the greatest watershed moment for the Linux ecosystem. You could quickly burn distributions on to a CD or DVD (you’re making us sad!–Ed) and boot into a functional Linux environment, without having to suffer through an installation and all that it entails. The only downside to this approach was the single-use nature of the CD/DVDs. But even this problem was overcome with USB drives, which you could wipe them clean and put in a new distribution at your pleasure.
With , you can easily create on to a SD card, or even SSD, NVMe drives. You can also configure persistent mode on your device, meaning that any changes you make to a Live session of a distribution will be available on subsequent reboots. For users looking to run an unattended installation, supports this feature on distros such as Debian, Fedora, RHEL and Ubuntu Server.
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