Free usb software for linux

Parted Magic is a ~30mb LiveCD/USB with its only purpose being partitioning hard drives. Although GParted and Parted are the main programs, the CD/USB also offers programs like partimage, testdisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, etc...
Parted Magic is based on my work from the GParted LiveCD project and falls under the terms of the GPL.
Enhancements:
- We added dd_rhelp, sdparm, mbr, and xfburn for starters. Updated programs: linux-2.6.22, e2fsprogs-1.40.2, ntfs-3g-1.710, dd_rescue-1.13, ddrescue-1.5, leafpad-0.8.11, file-4.21, testdisk-6.7, mdadm-2.6.1, pciutils-2.2.5, syslinux-3.51, isomaster-1.0, hdparm-7.4, xfsprogs_2.8.21-1, busybox-1.5.1, and usbutils-0.72. All menus are bypassed now. After the syslinux menu, it boots to the desktop without any other interruptions. You can now create the LiveUSB from the LiveCD by using our new USB Operations program...

Catux-USB is a distribution created by CaTuX, an association of GNU/Linuxs users from the central area of Catalonia.

This distribution is not just one more, but it has a distinguishing feature: it can be executed from any Pendrive (or any USB storage device, even the low capacity ones.

Once it has been executed and the hardware detected, you will have a totally normal distribution, based on Debian through Knoppix and ready to do all the apt-get you want.

USB Pen Drive Linux is portable Linux compilation that is based purely on Debian Linux. The project can be installed to a portable hard drive, USB flash pen drive or even an ipod or other portable device.

USB Linux installation enables you to install a portable Linux operating system on a flash drive no larger than your thumb. This portable Linux version can then be run from any computer that can boot from a flash device.

This process allows you to bring your operating system, desktop, applications, files, e-mail, personal settings, favorites and more with you. It’s like having your own personal operating system you can carry in your pocket. On this site, we provide many simplified portable Linux flash drive tutorials.

Device::USB::FAQ Perl module contains Frequently Asked Questions for Device::USB.

This is an attempt to answer some of the frequently asked questions about the Device::USB module.

Which platforms does Device::USB support?

Device:USB supports any platform that libusb supports. This list currently includes Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, and MacOS X.

There is a port of the libusb library to the Windows environment called LibUsb-Win32. Because I dont have a development environment for testing this library, Device::USB does not yet support this library.

Do I have to use Device::USB as root?

By default, access to the USB devices on a Unix-based system appear to be limited to the root account. This usually causes access to most of the libusb features to fail with a permission error.

Using the Device::USB module as root avoids this feature, but is not very satisfying from a security standpoint. (See the next question for more options.)

How do I enable use of Device::USB as a non-root user?

Some of the attributes of USB devices are available to non-root users, but accessing many of the more interesting features require special privileges. According to the libusb source, the open() function requires either device nodes to be present or the usbfs file system to be mounted in specific locations. Those places in order are:

1)
/dev/bus/usb - pre-2.6.11: via devfs / post-2.6.11: via udev
2)
/proc/bus/usb - usbfs

Look in both locations on your system for which of these two methods your libusb will use.

No matter which method your system uses, you will probably want to create a separate group to control access. Run this command to add a system group:

addgroup --system usb

or

groupadd --system usb

You can then add users to that group to allow access to your usb devices.

USB Launcher project is a couple of basic programs to drive the M&S USB Missile Launcher.
ctlmissile does all the actual work. Youll need libusb installed to compile it, but assuming you have that typing "make" should do the trick. You can then
do:
ctlmissile up
ctlmissile down
ctlmissile left
ctlmissile right
ctlmissile fire
ctlmissile stop
to do all the things youd expect. Note youll need to be root to use it. I
havent figured out a nice way to use libusb yet as a user. Anyone got some pointers?
Oh, and youll need to not have usbhid installed or itll claim the device itself (I think I can add support so that it gets automatically disconnected from the device, so Ill have a look at that).
usblauncher is a Perl program that uses GTK2 to provide a basic interface for controlling the launcher. It uses ctlmissile. Currently Ive made ctlmissile suid root so I can run usblauncher as my normal user id, but Im not sure about this long term.
Enhancements:
- Added support for Dream Cheeky USB missile launcher from James Puderer.