New: Rufus Portable 1.3.1 (format and create bootable USB drives) Released 3t3r6d

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Submitted by John T. Haller on January 11, 2013 - 12:25am

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ScreenshotRufus is a small utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc. It can be be especially useful for cases where: you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, etc.); you need to work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed; you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS; you want to run a low-level utility. Rufus is significantly faster than similar utilities and it's open source and free.

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Rufus Portable is packaged in a portableapps.sitesunblocked.org Installer so it will automatically detect an existing portableapps.sitesunblocked.org installation when your drive is plugged in. It s upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in portableapps.sitesunblocked.org Format, so it automatically works with the portableapps.sitesunblocked.org Platform including the Menu and Backup Utility.

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Rufus Portable is available for immediate from the Rufus Portable homepage. Get it today!

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uunetbootin? 1s3np

How is this different/better than good ol' uunetbootin?

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Faster 1c5g1d

For starters, it's up to 3x faster. Check the bottom of the app's homepage.

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Simeon's picture

Nice 4h5r36

On my Ubuntu box I always use Unetbootin so its nice to have an equivalent on my new Companion.
Thanks John!

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Why does Rufus need to call 2g4x2e

Why does Rufus need to call home?

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Looks like it tries to update some files 72i5b

I took a quick look at the source for Rufus and in rufus.h there's this code that looks like it tries to autoupdate some Syslinux files. Dunno if that's why you think it's "calling home" or not.

#define RUFUS_URL "http://rufus.akeo.ie"
/* Special handling for old .c32 files we need to replace */
#define NB_OLD_C32 2
#define OLD_C32_NAMES {"menu.c32", "vesamenu.c32"}
#define OLD_C32_THRESHOLD {53500, 145000}
#define NEW_C32_URL {RUFUS_URL "/s/menu.c32", RUFUS_URL "/s/vesamenu.c32"}

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