What OS is best to run from a USB drive?

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GamerMan101

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Hello all!

Today I received a Panasonic Toughbook CF-45, the vintage 1999 or sometime around that version. So, the only downside, is that I just ran out of IDE hard drives. (the last one went to a customer) I already bought one, and it is shipping and has 8 days remaining, hence this post. I need to run a lightweight OS on this computer, that can run ONLY FROM A USB DRIVE! I have already tried KolibriOS and Puppy Linux. Neither option really works because it runs from the RAM.
I will repeat this: IT NEEDS TO RUN FORM USB ONLY, NOT THE RAM!

Thank you all, and I do apologize for the caps usage.

-Sam
 

USAFRet

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Every OS has to interact with the system RAM.
Assuming a non-broken laptop, puppylinux should be just fine on that.

What is it doing or not doing that fails to work on that system?
 

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I have tried various. Two that are often recommended Puppy Linux - runs great but has an ugly/awful UI. And Porteus Linux runs well with a nice UI but uses a funky package management scheme that makes it hard to find many apps you want to run. The best one I have tried so far is Manjaro Linux 17 Xfce desktop. Runs pretty fast and has most of the main apps available - though even with this it's not so easy for some packages. If Manjaro used Debian (.deb) packages it would be perfect I think.
 
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