Medicat USB: A super-vitaminized Ventoy with +20 GB of Software
As is well known by many, inside and outside the Linuxverse, Most GNU/Linux distribution users tend to be users who are on average more advanced or computer-savvy. That is, they tend to be Home users who are very self-taught, computer-wise, or IT professionals in a specific field of Information Technology and Computing. For example, workers or employees such as HelpDesk, SysAdmins, Devs, DevOps, Hackers or Pentesters, among many others.
As a result, many are accustomed to using both programs and windy to run live and installable disk images, such as technical tools like Hiren's Boot CD, WinPE Sergei Strelec, DLC Boot y Direction, to perform diagnostic, maintenance, repair and recovery tasks on computers and operating systems. And precisely in this area, an excellent tool that is little known, but worth knowing and using, and that is like a kind of super-vitaminized Ventoy in the style of Hiren Boot CD, it is called "Medicat USB". Which, for the first time, we will announce today here at Desde Linux.
Ventoy: Open source application for creating bootable USB drives
But, before entering fully into the knowledge and exploration of the free technical tool called «Medicat USB», we recommend you explore a previous related post with the creation base (Ventoy) of this utility, at the end of it:
"Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. With Ventoy, you don't need to format the disk over and over again, you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly. So with it, you simply copy the desired disk image files to the prepared USB and then access them via a boot menu. And it supports both major boot systems (x86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI and MIPS64EL UEFI) and most of the popular Operating Systems, such as Windows, WinPE, Linux, ChromeOS, Unix, VMware, Xen, etc."
Medicat USB: A super-vitaminized Ventoy with +20 GB of Software
About Medicat USB
According to Official website from the software tool «Medicat USB», it is briefly described as follows:
Medicat USB is a toolkit that helps compile a selection of the latest computer diagnostic and recovery tools into one easy-to-use toolkit.
However, to be more specific and comprehensive about it, the following can be added:
MediCat USB is a software tool capable of creating a highly customizable Ventoy-based multi-boot USB flash drive suitable for performing diagnostic, maintenance, repair and recovery tasks on computers and operating systems. It also includes support for working with computers with BIOS and UEFI technology. It also includes a wide range of programs for file recovery and other essential technical activities frequently performed by users and workers such as Help Desk Analysts and System and Server Administrators (SysAdmins).
Currently, your latest stable version available for download is the version 21.12 Release 3518, dated March 17, 2024, which, as usual, can be installed on a USB flash drive, both from Windows and Linux, and comes by default, a minimal operating system of both Windows and Linux that can be started at will. And it is worth noting that, Medicat USB, as a development based on Ventoy, also allows and encourages the creation of derivative projects by allowing you to modify and adapt whatever is necessary. While also noted for being a reliable software, by ensuring that it is free of viruses, malware or any type of malicious code.
Finally, it is very easy to install according to your official instructions and its official minimum requirements They are basically the use of a 32 GB USB Flash Drive of the USB 3.0 type. Which can be easily checked in more detail from the following link.
Screenshots of the application
Summary
In short, we hope that this new free technical tool released today, called «Medicat USB» based on Ventoy, it will be very useful to all those computer users, both Linux and Windows and others. Since, we are sure that, Huge collection of software (+20 GB) offered and included For various tasks such as diagnosis, maintenance, repair and recovery of computers and operating systems, it will be a great help for many. Additionally, it will be able to start all the live and installable disk images that are required as in a classic Ventoy. And finally, if you know of any other similar and equally powerful tool, we invite you to mention it via comments so that in the near future we can explore it and make it known to others.
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