List of tools to create Live USB systems
This is a list of utilities for creating Live USB.
Overview
Multiboot means that the tool allows multiple systems on the USB stick, as well as a bootloader on the USB stick to choose which system to load at boot time.
| Name | Developer | Licensing | Maintained? | Runs on (OS) | Target OS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AOMEI Partition Assistant[1] | AOMEI Technology | Freeware | Yes | Windows | Windows |
| DasBoot[2] | SubRosaSoft | Freeware | No | OS X | OS X |
| dd | Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, and Stuart Kemp[3] | Free software | Yes | Unix-like | Virtually anything |
| Fedora Live USB creator | Fedora Project | GNU GPL | Yes | Windows, Linux | Linux |
| LinuxLive USB Creator | Thibaut Lauzière | GNU GPL | Yes | Windows | Linux |
| mkusb mkusb-nox | Nio Wiklund | GNU GPL v3 | Yes | Linux (uses bash and zenity) | System images; Live: Linux (all hybrid iso files); Persistent live: Debian, Ubuntu; Windows installer |
| remastersys | Tony Brijeski | GNU GPL v2 | No[4] | Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint | Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, their derivatives |
| Rufus | Akeo Consulting | GNU GPL v3 | Yes | Windows | Windows, Linux, DOS |
| SliTaz TazUSB | SliTaz | GNU GPL | Yes | SliTaz GNU/Linux | SliTaz GNU/Linux |
| SUSE Studio ImageWriter | Matt Barringer | GNU GPL v2 | Yes | Windows, Linux | Linux |
| Ubuntu Live USB creator | Canonical Ltd | GNU GPL v3 | Yes | Windows, Ubuntu | Ubuntu |
| UNetbootin | Geza Kovacs | GPL v2+[5] | Yes | Windows, OS X, Linux | Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, CentOS, Gentoo, Linux Mint, Arch Linux, Mandriva, MEPIS, Slackware, FreeDOS, FreeBSD and NetBSD |
| Windows To Go | Microsoft | Proprietary | Yes | Windows | Windows 8 or later, Enterprise edition |
See also
- List of Linux distributions that run from RAM
- Image optimizer
- Multiboot Specification
- System Installer
References
- ↑ "Create Windows PE Bootable CD Wizard". disk-partition.com.
- ↑ "SubRosaSoft Dasboot 2.0". Retrieved 22 December 2013.
- ↑ "dd man page, Author".
- ↑ "remastersys web page".
- ↑ "License and credits of UNetbootin".
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