Examples of Live-USB Operating Systems
- BeleniX: Customized OpenSolaris installs including live CD and live USB.
- Debian officially supports a Debian live project providing live images for its stable releases, with a choice of several desktop environments
- Fedora (with Fedora Live USB creator)
- Gentoo Gentoo USB Live.
- Haiku: the Installer tool installs the operating system onto a hard disk or a USB Live indifferently.
- Knoppix, one of the first live Linux distributions
- Mac OS X (Intel):The Intel versions of Mac OS X can be booted off any USB file system including (but not limited to) USB flash drives.
- OpenBSD
- OpenSolaris: The Distribution Constructor project has tools allowing users to build an install image.
- OS-9 RTOS: The standard OS-9 Configuration Wizard for X86 creates bootable USB sticks. OS-9 5.0 for X86 will support the creation of bootable CDs.
- OSx86: some "hacked" Mac OS X images can be written to a USB flash drive and turn it into a bootable Mac OS X system.
- Pardus: by usb creator tools
- Puredyne: live CD/DVD/USB distribution for media artists and designers.
- PCLinuxOS: Version 2009.1 comes with a live USB creator tool, version 2008 "MiniMe" can be installed manually.
- Puppy Linux Designed for easy install on USB.
- Sugar: Sugar on a Stick is a LiveUSB for children and learning.
- Super OS: usb-creator and cd2usb included on the DVD.
- Ubuntu (can be installed directly to a flash drive or USB external hard drive manually by using tools like usb-creator, UNetbootin or cd2usb)
- Windows To Go: Windows 8 feature that will allow the entire system to run from a USB drive, including programs, settings and documents
- Windows Preinstallation Environment: Freely available version of a live Windows installation, command-line only.
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