Put Your Linux on a Stick

Flipping the Linux switch: Penguin on a (USB) stick - Download Squad

The two little distributions — Puppy Linux and Damn Small Linux Not — have been chosen for their flexibility and very different approaches to the same issues.If you’re not willing to devote an entire machine to Linux, you might want to take a look at the next two Flip the Switch posts from DLS. I’ve mentioned both Puppy and Damn Small Linux on the old blog, and I’m sort of partial to Puppy at this point.

Don’t forget that either of these can be installed as a desktop OS on an older machine. I can say from personal experience that my Puppy box runs faster than my XP machine, requires less RAM, and crashes less, even though the Puppy box was purchased off the store shelf in 1998 and hasn’t been modified since!