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Porteus-v5.01 – Cinnamon DE with Kernel 6.5.5

July 29, 2025September 28, 2023 by Karmi

‘Porteus is a fast, portable and modular live CD/USB medium based on Slackware Linux.’ Not an ounce of bloat on this Porteus-CINNAMON-v5.01-x86_64.iso @ just 380 MB. After adding apps & tweaking it only uses 1.7 GiB, so it easily fits on the 32 GB SanDisk USB.

OK – lots of pics to be added, and I am going to try to squeeze everything into just one post. There is a three part Porteus 5.0 Cinnamon series listed under the dropdown Category: Porteus Linux menu, and they are also listed under the Page section at the top – OPERATING SYSTEMS > LINUX > PORTEUS LINUX. Refer to those for more info and pics.

Porteus 5.0 Cinnamon – Part 3: Booting the new Fat32 & Ext4 USB’s Porteus 5.0 installation

August 12, 2025July 9, 2023 by Karmi

(NOTE: Am closing down my old Linux Newbie – since 1996 WordPress.com blog (is Private now), and am in the process of refreshing and moving some of the content over to my self-hosted KM&T (Karmi’s Musings & Tech) blog here.)

This is Part 3 of this Porteus v5.0 series, and I am sorta gearing the series towards MS Windows users, but still mindful of interested Linux users. I have been using Porteus Linux since March of 2022, but have found it to be the most interesting Linux OS I have ever used (since 1996), and it has already become my favorite ‘Working‘ Linux OS. I had been using the Porteus 5.0rc3 until Porteus 5.0 was released on July 3rd, 2022. The 5.0 release candidate 3 was fine, but the Porteus 5.0 final release has been smoother ‘n snappier than 5.0rc3 was. Porteus’ Developers/Team have done an excellent job!

In Part 1 we covered creating a fat32 ‘Live‘ Porteus USB, and then using its GParted app to prep a Target drive.

In Part 2 we prepped a Target drive wid two partitions – a 360 MiB fat32 partition & an 114.26 GiB ext4 partition. Then we used the EFI, boot, and porteus folders – located on that fat32 ‘Live‘ Porteus USB to create the new Porteus 5.0 Cinnamon installation that had a fat32 ‘n an ext4 partition.

This was the best method I could come up w/ for any interested MS Windows users, who might not have access to apps for creating ext4 formatted partitions.

Porteus 5.0 Cinnamon – Part 2: Installation – Fat32 PLUS Ext4 or Fat32

August 12, 2025July 3, 2023 by Karmi

(NOTE: Am closing down my old Linux Newbie – since 1996 WordPress.com blog (is Private now), and am in the process of refreshing and moving some of the content over to my self-hosted KM&T (Karmi’s Musings & Tech) blog here.)

This series is mainly for potential Windows users. In Part 1 I mentioned two options for installing Porteus v5.0 onto a USB: 1) using a fat32 formatted partition. 2) using two partitions – a smaller fat32 formatted partition plus an ext4 formatted partition.

As most Windows users know, formatting a USB drive is limited to a size of just 32 GBs max when using fat32, which is why fat32 formatting is generally found on the smaller USBs.

In this ‘Refresh‘ of the original Part 2 in this Porteus 5.0 Cinnamon series, I am going to cover three Steps in creating various versions of the Porteus 5.0 Cinnamon OS – a ‘Live‘ version which will be used to create the other two versions (or Steps).

Porteus Linux works great on a 32 GB USB…heck, the updated Porteus-CINNAMON-v5.0-x86_64.iso I downloaded was just 359 MBs…1 MB smaller than the 360 MB one I got a few days before.

No *BLOAT* on Porteus Linux! I’ve recently tested it on a 16 GB USB w/ no problems ‘n plenty of room. I even formatted that 16 GB USB w/ Two Partitions – a fat32 plus ext4 partitions.

Porteus 5.0 Cinnamon – Part 1: Refresh of old Review

August 12, 2025June 26, 2023 by Karmi

Am closing down my old Linux Newbie – since 1996 WordPress.com blog (is Private now), and am in the process of refreshing and moving some of the content over to my self-hosted KM&T (Karmi’s Musings & Tech) blog here.

Have been using Porteus Linux for about 16-months now, as a ‘Companion‘ OS to Win11 Pro, and as my main ‘Working‘ Linux OS—I do a lot of testing on Linux OSes.

Refresh of old Review

“Porteus-v5.0 is released!” – I’d been running Porteus 5.0rc3 Cinnamon since around 3/31/2022 and almost immediately placed it as my #1a Linux OS—just ahead of now #1b Fedora Linux. I was very excited about the new release, and have been testing & using it for almost a year now. 👌👍

PorteuX 0.3 – ‘The Next Experience’ — Part 2

August 12, 2025May 24, 2023 by Karmi

PorteuX 0.3 – ‘The Next Experience’ — Part 1 covered ‘Setting up PorteuX 0.3‘ & ‘Post Setup‘ – and you’ll need to refer to it for some of the info on using GParted to prep the Target device ‘n etc. Part 1 also covered how to set up the different PorteuX 0.3 (github) desktop environments—KDE, GNOME, LXDE, LXQT, MATE, and XFCE in either stable or current options.

Part 2 will be on how to set up the porteux-v0.3-xfce-4.12-stable-x86_64.iso wid a Cinnamon DE. The Developer says: ‘Xfce 4.12 is the recommended version for the best balance between performance and flexibility. Many patches have been applied to this Xfce version to improve the user experience.‘ You can use another version, but the xfce 4.12 stable version had the Screenshot app in it ‘n not all versions had that app. PorteuX 0.3 is very new ‘n has some minor bugs and/or slight differences in app options of various DEs.