Based on the icon and some of the links, it looks to be connected somehow to PuppyLinux. Anyone know what the link is?
PuppyLinux was my first distro, it was great fun to be able to boot directly from a flash drive. IIRC persistence was implemented by just writing to a file which could be located anywhere, even on a Windows system. It was a great way to get familiar without committing.
"Please note that EasyOS is not Puppy Linux. EasyOS forked from Quirky Linux in 2017 (and Quirky forked from Puppy in 2013), and is a major rethink, including core support for containers. Barry created Puppy Linux in 2003 and remained at the helm until 2013, before turning control over to the "Puppy Community".
Barry still scans the Puppy Forum, and there is a lot of "cross pollination" with EasyOS, in particular sharing of PET packages. However, Barry cannot provide help if you have any issues with installing or using Puppy. Nor is it appropriate to post such questions to the EasyOS section of the forum."
Nowadays, if you wanted something you could boot off a USB flash drive, you'd use MX Linux. It even supports loading the entire OS into System RAM so you can eject the USB flash drive after it has booted.
Persistence is optional here, you can either have it or not have it.
It also has a built-in tool to remaster the OS image, so you can update all the packages, install a few more, then run a Remaster and then you have a brand new USB bootable OS image with updated packages.
MX Linux also has the "Frugal Install" feature that lets you install the USB version of the operating system to your hard drive, but it will still act just like you booted from USB, with the system being rolled back if you don't manually persist the system.
Getting persistence to work is a giant PITA lol I was doing it for work once and kept having problems. We used RUFUS, a Windows-only tool to make the drives. Making a new drive required Windows to format it, then Linux to copy the files, before it was usable. What a dumb process. I didn't use block-level imaging because I wanted to add new files easily or expand them to different drive sizes easily or something.
It's like crypto: you wouldnt attract anyone paying nearly enough if you had to invest to solve current problems without any idea if you even could. Might as well re-solve inefficiently past problems and you might catch a few passer bys.
PuppyLinux was my first distro, it was great fun to be able to boot directly from a flash drive. IIRC persistence was implemented by just writing to a file which could be located anywhere, even on a Windows system. It was a great way to get familiar without committing.