Live11 is a new solution created by the developer of Tiny 11 that makes it possible run the operating system in memory without installing it on the PC. Does this sound like Linux?

Linux ‘Live CD’ or ‘Live USB’ has been used for decades. The basic idea is to create a medium that, after inserting it into an optical drive or a flash drive inserted into a USB port, will allow us to test the operating system without the need to install it. These types of formats are also used to run troubleshooters/rescues or other security tools, as there are times when this is the only way to kill malware that runs before the operating system is installed.

These “live disks” are ideal for testing fully functional GNU distributions without touching the host system. If there are many with Linux, there are fewer with Windows, and in fact it is Windows 11 Live11 the first “live DVD” with Windows 11 because it was designed to run in RAM only using VHD 4GB. Of course, you can also copy the ISO to a USB drive or SD card and run from there if you’re not already using optical media.

This development was done on the basis of Tiny 11, a scaled-down version of Windows 11 aimed at modest PCs, which was now ready to run in “Live” format. The author claims to have used GrubDOS bootloader and SCSI driver, SVBus.

Live11 is under development

Its creators describe it as a “proof of concept” and warn against it various problems which is still evolving, such as: consider which include:

• It only boots from legacy MBR/BIOS devices. (This will be fixed in a later version)
• Virtualbox VMs don’t work because they restart after the “device installation” phase. Since this is a non-persistent image, all progress is lost and as such is left in the launch loop. It should be said that other virtual machine clients like VMware and Hyper-V work.
• Although the image only uses 4GB of RAM, it needs double that to load, and therefore only works on machines with at least 8GB of RAM.

If you are interested, you can download the ISO directly from Internet Archive. There is also a version for torrent networks. A very interesting development that still needs to be improved.