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I remember how live distributions became popular among technicians in early 2000's. The main advantages they had over windows were could more easily pack lots o
by marcodiego 5y ago
I remember how live distributions became popular among technicians in early 2000's. The main advantages they had over windows were could more easily pack lots of software, there was nothing to care about license and popular hardware usually worked out of the box without needing to install specific drivers.
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- LeSaucy 5y agoHirens was a brilliant tool for cleaning malware infected systems. Most malware of the time would prevent opening task manager, regedit, services.msc etc. Often business systems of the era had so much manually configured or proprietary software that it wasn’t always possible to wipe and reinstall.
- Teknoman117 5y agoI used to keep a 2.88 MB floppy with tomsrtbt on it.