Porteus

A modular, Slackware-based live distribution designed to boot in seconds from a USB stick and run entirely from RAM, with add-on software delivered as loadable compressed modules.

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Basada en

Slackware

Primer lanzamiento

2010

Gestor de paquetes

Slackware packages + Porteus modules (.xzm)

Entornos de escritorio

Xfce, KDE Plasma, MATE, and others, selectable per edition

Porteus is built around a modular '.xzm' module system: rather than installing packages that permanently modify the filesystem, extra software ships as compressed modules that get mounted and unmounted on the fly, keeping the core system small while still allowing a large effective software library. It's optimized specifically for extremely fast boot times and running fully from RAM once loaded, similar in spirit to Puppy Linux and Tiny Core but built on a Slackware package base rather than an independent one. It's popular for USB-drive 'carry your OS with you' use cases and for quickly spinning up a known-good, unmodified environment on borrowed hardware.

MirrorNest no aloja las imágenes ISO de las distribuciones — el medio de instalación siempre debe descargarse directamente desde la página oficial del proyecto (enlazada arriba), para obtener la suma de verificación/firma correcta con la que comprobarlo.