Carbide Motion Live Boot System (linux based)

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I’ve packaged Carbide Motion into a standalone, bootable operating system image. Is there any interest from others to use this?

How it’s used

  • flash it to a USB key
  • boot your computer from the USB key
  • use the software

Notably,

  • it works on Intel/AMD processors (including the Intel based Macs)
  • it is a read-only system
  • your existing computer system stays in-place (is not used)
  • wifi may or may not work, depending on details

Tech details:

  • Debian Trixie, with Gnome
  • bundles the FlatPak
  • uses Debian live-build tool
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It really needs to be able to save to the drive for the machine settings, zeros, etc.

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There is a RAM based filesystem overlay. So, it can ‘save files’, but it goes away with a reboot.

Meanwhile there is a provision to persist files to a separate disk/partition, but for brevity I did not detail that mechanism.

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That’s fine, but you’ll have to run the setup wizard each time you reboot, and then reset the zero.

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Yes. Similar to changing computers.