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Hello, yes I am a crazed disto-hopper. Booting a PC is a "dogs breakfast." I like the name "EasyOS" and I just wish booting a PC OS was easy, but it's not. I
by mmphosis 5y ago
Hello, yes I am a crazed disto-hopper.
Booting a PC is a "dogs breakfast." I like the name "EasyOS" and I just wish booting a PC OS was easy, but it's not.
I boot my daily driver off of a camera card.
I also multi-boot.
I can net boot.
I can still burn CDs and DVDs, but would rather not.
I have a 3 1/2 inch drive that connects thru USB in a drawer somewhere.
If it was up to me (and it's not): I would have many memory cards that could be set to Read-Only by physically flipping a tab just like on an old 3 1/2 floppy. The code in fast memory on the memory card starts from an open standard address, a documented place that is absolutely the first and only code that runs when the computer is powered on. The read-only OS is already in memory and running and there is no such thing as boot time. I press the power on switch, and the OS is running instantaneously.
- mattowen_uk 5y ago> I would have many memory cards that could be set to Read-Only by physically flipping a tab just like on an old 3 1/2 floppy. SD cards (not the micro ones) have a slider on the side to make them read-only.
- selfhoster11 5y agoThat's a host-enforced write protection, which is worthless for protecting against malicious modification of contents (because a compromise host can just ignore it).
- mattowen_uk 5y agoOoh, TIL, thanks. :)