PocketHandyBox Portable Linux (Debian with NVIDIA drivers OOTB)

PocketHandyBox portable Linux distribution (based on Debian and Devuan) with NVIDIA drivers OOTB. Designed for hardware testing, servicing PCs and laptops.

Available versions based on Debian 12 "Bookworm" (Devuan "Daedalus") and Debian 13 "Trixie" (Devuan "Excalibur")

Download .iso images:
github.com/PocketHandyBox/pocket-handybox/releases

Provides the Xfce desktop, and applications such as CPU-X, GSmartControl, GParted, Partimage, Partclone, TestDisk, ddrescue, WHDD.

Includes applications such as CPU-X, GSmartControl, GParted, Partimage, Partclone, TestDisk, ddrescue, WHDD, OpenZFS (64bit only).

Both UEFI and Legacy/CSM boot modes supported. Ventoy compatible (minimal version 1.0.80) Support boot from USB/SATA/NVMe devices, from FAT32/exFAT/Ext2/3/4/NTFS filesystems. Secure Boot is not supported and must be disabled. Boot from ZFS not supported.

Contains three versions of NVIDIA proprietary GPU drivers - current 550.x, and legacy 390.x and 340.x. At boot time, the 'linuxrc' script automatically determines which driver squashfs module to load.

The default boot option is 64bit Linux 6.10 kernel. NVIDIA 550.x and 390.x driver modules are pre-built.

Additionally, a 64bit Linux 5.10 kernel is supplied. It must be selected if a legacy 340.x NVIDIA driver is required (390.x is also pre-built).

Linux 5.10 kernel built with intel-nvme-remap patch from EndlessOS to get access to NVMe SSDs on 6th-10th gen Intel Core i3/i5/i7 platforms with "Intel RST Premium With Optane" option enabled in UEFI Setup.

For compatibility with older hardware, a live32 i686 version with Linux 6.1 kernel without PAE is included.

When booting with Linux 6.1 or 6.10 kernels, the new NTFS3 driver from Paragon is used to mount drives instead of NTFS-3G.

You can install any software available in Debian and create modules with the necessary additional software. Additional squashfs modules can be activated in run time, not only at boot time.

PocketHandyBox Wiki:
github.com/PocketHandyBox/pocket-handybox/wiki