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Kalinx is a loopback filesystem Linux distribution. A free partition of the hard disk is not required. The necessary files are packed into normal files of the existing file system. Kalinx is currently based on Debian Trixie.
Linux is booted from the USB drive. All files are on the standard FAT partition. You have your own system including your own files on the USB drive with which you can boot from most modern computers from BIOS or EFI. In the EFI settings, Secure Boot may need to be disabled. You need approx. 1 GB free storage space. The system files are located in the directory kalinx, the data files of the standard user are located in the directory data*.
Unzip the ZIP file to the USB drive. You get efi/, kalinx/ and syslinux.cfg.
The user accounts are: me/me (standard user) and root/root (administrator).
The system can be extended and updated with the standard packet manager.
Entire applications can be packed into special files and copied to the Kalinx directory. When booting, these applications are mounted and the necessary settings for the start menu are created.
Example: Integration of GeoGebra (math tool)
cd /tmp
tar xvf $HOME/Downloads/GeoGebra-Linux-Portable-*.tar.bz2
cd GeoGebra-Linux-Portable-*
#rm -rf jre*-i686
cat >geogebra.desktop <<'EOF'
[Desktop Entry]
Name=GeoGebra
Comment=Dynamic mathematics software
Exec=/opt/geogebra/geogebra-portable
Icon=/opt/geogebra/geogebra.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Education;Math
MimeType=application/vnd.geogebra.file;application/vnd.geogebra.tool;
EOF
cd
mksquashfs /tmp/GeoGebra-Linux-Portable-*/* geogebra.fsf -noappend