By: Juan Marcelo Rodriguez Wednesday July 20, 2005
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By: Juan Marcelo Rodriguez Wednesday July 20, 2005
You can carry GNU/Linux in your pocket with a functional, quick, and useful USB pen drive distribution. Pen drives are faster than CDs, and the small distros that fit on them don't require huge amounts of memory for the operating system and applications.
Slax is a powerful and complete bootable distro based on Slackware, equipped with kernel 2.6, ALSA sound drivers, Wi-Fi card support, X11-6.8.2 with support for many GFX cards and wheel mice, and KDE 3.4. Slax uses the Unification File System (also known as unionfs), which enables you to write whatever you want into the pen drive. Bundled software includes KDE, the KOffice office suite, GAIM for chat, the Thunderbird email client, and the Firefox Web browser.
In addition to Slax, you might care to try Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux, or Feather Linux, all distros that take up less than 60MB of disk space.