Within the GNU/Linux ecosystem there are all kinds of tools to diagnose the system, or rather, to check the state of the hardware, but there are few distributions specifically designed to perform this task, or at least that I know of, because the only distribution I know that is intended to diagnose the computer, (Or ​​at least one of the components), is memtest86+, so I would like to know what other distributions exist in addition to the one mentioned above

  • @d3Xt3rM
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    325 days ago

    Medicat USB has a few hardware diagnostics tools on it. It’s based on Ventoy, so it’s more like a collection of ISOs as opposed to a single distro.

    • Manito ManoplaOP
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      125 days ago

      Something like that I was looking for, not exactly a collection of ISOs, but a live iso that had several tools to make a diagnosis, rescue files, and do a malware analysis. Because there is malware that can hide at system startup. Already a conventional antivirus can make it very difficult to detect it.

      • @d3Xt3rM
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        25 days ago

        You can sill use Medicare to create the USB and then add your favorite antimalware rescue CD to it, like the Kaspersky/Avira ones, but if it’s an unknown malware you’d have to use other analysis tools like Sysinternals RootkirRevealer, Autoruns etc. If you want to fix Windows stuff then it’s best to get a WinPE-based live CD with these tools, like Sergei Strelec, Gandalf etc.