[plug] Linux on a USB stick

[Richard Meyer]

On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 20:51 +0800, Arie Hol wrote:
> Somebody on this list recently asked about suitable distros for USB thumb drives/sticks :
> 
> There is an interesting article in the July, 2005 edition of Linux Format (pages 34-39)
> 
> The article did reviews and ratings on several mini distros suitable for USB sticks, Zip disks and 
> Business card sized CD's :
>  
> 	Damn Small Linux - scored 8/10
> 	Zipslack - scored 6/10
> 	INSERT - scored 6/10
> 	Puppy Linux - scored 7/10
> 	Feather Linux - 6/10
> 	muLinux -  scored 5/10
> 
> The mini distros are also included on the cover disk (DVD)

And on the CD's, too, I believe, but of the 3 mini-distros I tried -
DSL, Puppy and Feather, all three hung while trying to boot my Tosh
lappy (Satellite 4090 XCDT).

I was experimenting with them, because the lappy was sooooo sloooooow.
Anyway, after that I just changed from KDE to WindowMaker - it's a bit
of a disconnect, but it's definitely orders of magnitude faster. Now to
speed up the booting ......

-- 
Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>
Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity.  It
eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the
business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation.
                -- Johnny Hart