GaryOS For Linux

GaryOS is an open source and freely distributed operating system based on the Gentoo and Funtoo Linux distributions and designed from the offset to provide users with a complete rescue system in a single binary file. It also borrows elements from the Grml Linux distribution.

GaryOS offers an entire Funtoo- and Gentoo-based operating system that includes a toolchain and resides in RAM (system memory), which means that you can eject the bootable medium after boot.

It features support for Microsoft Windows, GRUB and PXE (Preboot eXecution Environment) bootloaders, a Forensics mode that requires no disk drives or swap, has a small footprint, and doesn’t require a CD/DVD media to work (it can be deployed on a USB flash drive).

Currently, GaryOS is distributed for free as bootable files with the .kernel extension, one for each of the supported hardware platforms, 32-bit and 64-bit. The binary files include initramfs and a Linux kernel, and have been generated using the Metro automated build tool with a a customized Gentoo/Funtoo configuration.

To use GaryOS as a rescue system for restoring broken bootloaders or recovering lost file from damaged systems, you should download the binary file for the hardware architecture you want to use it (64-bit or 32-bit), copy it on a USB thumb drive, point your bootloader to the media where the kernel file is located and boot it.

We feel obligated to warn new Linux users that this is not their regular Linux operating system, which can be easily written on a CD/DVD disc or USB media and later boot it from the BIOS of their computer. It requires basic knowledge of how to edit the entries of a bootloader, no matter the operating system installed on their PCs.