MiniOS

Reader supplied reviews for MiniOS Average rating 8.9 from 7 review(s) What are your thoughts on MiniOS? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 4.1.2 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 4.1.2 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-06-11 Votes: 0 I discovered this distro in 2025 (searching a linux with 32-bit uefi support) and i am very pleased with the preinstalled tools (especially toolbox version). Is based on debian so you can install all the applications you need. I use it on slow computers and is running just fine. From web browsing to play movies, recovering files, remote connection and virtual machine technology...alll working just fine. You can make a test using live-cd and install it if you like it. I really recommend it. Congratulations to the authors ! i will check for updates Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 4.1.2 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-05-29 Votes: 6 I have been using MiniOS for over 3 years now and I think this distribution is the best implementation of Debian for a flash drive. I don't know exactly what technologies the authors used, but MiniOS is worthy of being a benchmark for performance: the system boots quickly and works just as fast even when using old, slow flash drives. Since I work as a system administrator, I often have to use this system in my work, for which I have built several modules with the software I need, using the built-in tools for creating modules. I congratulate the developers on such a wonderful distribution and really hope that they will not stop there and continue to develop the project. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 4.1.2 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-05-25 Votes: 6 For my part, I am glad that I found this distro. I have also been using Thomas Mateicek's script for a long time. I have found that you can only make a working build from a pure Debian installation, because the rest either fail, or the mouse will not work even with a close relative (ubuntu). I do not make an iso file from the finished build. I just empty everything from the boot folder except for initrfs.img and vmlinuz. I place the prepared finished build folder on an ext4 file system, insert it into the ventoly grub menu, or place it in a linux file system, insert it into the host-linux grub menu with puppy linux frugal install, and always load it into RAM, because there is enough of it. I have been looking for a mini Debian distro for a long time in which the network manager works well and the wifi is ready to work, and I finally found the standard version with you. ... Thank you! I loaded this into the RAM using my own method, before that I edited the config file to my liking. After booting, I only had to set the keyboard to Hungarian in the internal settings menu and I installed everything I needed into the system. Then I copied the vmlinuz file from your original build to the root of the file system (I was able to do it because there was no kernel update in the meantime) and with the help of the Live Linux Kit I made my own build with an sb module from it. It is about 1.1GiB in size. Thank you. I will read more from you on how to update the kernel. ... Best regards, CsIxy Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 7 reader reviews of MiniOS...