[fishsponge]

http://os.newsforge....8/1522251.shtml

NewsForge, on 20 Jul 2005,09:01, said:

Run GNU/Linux from a USB pen drive
By mrjohns@speedy.com.ar (Juan Marcelo Rodríguez)
Published Wednesday July 20, 2005 (09:01 AM GMT)

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.

Read more... (including how to actually install it )

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[flea]

reply to this is too late as i just reg here.. anyways, it's very cool.
been using this now at work.

[-janet-]

It's amazing, using linux from usb drive

[emanprinting]

great!!!
To try setting up a bootable USB drive,
you need a computer with an Internet connection, an optical drive to boot from, and a free USB 2.0 port, to which the external USB drive should be connected.