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- hugehead83, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13DSL is great, but Puppy Linux is even better. Their ISO is still less than 100MB and has so many more helpful applications (OOS, installation wizards, etc.) I have both Puppy and DSL on usb drives, and can honestly say Puppy was easier to install:
-Boot to Puppy Live CD
-Insert USB Drive
-Click "Install Puppy to USB Drive"
-Done!
The DSL concept of a 50MB OS is great for those biz card CDs, etc., but I think most everyday users would be happier with something a bit more feature-rich. - schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Damn! That /is/ some Small Linux. Fits on a keychain...
- gr4v3d1gg3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I love DSL .I't full of features , runs on old hardware and it's easy to add software.The software is a little old though.It's based on Debian Woody.
Support open source! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5*cough* old news?
- aaronm67, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Lots of computers can't run Knoppix. DSL gives you a GUI that can run on pretty much any hardware.
And as for do something, it has many of the functions I use in a distro...have you actually looked at it? It's very full featured. - akan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3DSL was my first Linux 'distro' if u will, that i tried out. it got me hooked. yea, slightly old, however, its so compact! and although rather slow, the ability to run it inside windows is rather handy.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, DSL is great - don't forget it can also run within windows as well, so if you can't access the BIOS, you can still run it through QEMU (providing you have the privileges to run exe's.) Yes some of the apps are slightly outdated, but as a portable Linux distribution this has to be one of the most versatile and best I've seen as of yet.
- TheOther1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I've been using DSL on a USB for a few years as a rescue tool. Great for recovering data from dead Windoze systems and no need to lug around CDs or floppys. It's got some great features and they now sell tiny systems running DSL on Nano boards.
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/store/Mini_ITX_Systems/Damn_Small_Machine - TheOther1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2MetroPipe looks promising. I have not tried it and it's not free (for gold or pro versions)
http://pvpm.metropipe.net/ - Lobster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You don't need a HD with live CD's, which can be useful. Austrumi is worth trying too
Puppy Love
http://tmxxine.com/Wikka/wikka.php?wakka=PuppyLove - theunderground5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2it was also my first linux distro that i messed with, i kno this has been on digg a few times before but who cares it's a good linux distro.
- TheOther1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You're right. Winblows is more accurate.
- malkir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2thanks man, I'll look into it.
- growler1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@malkir
You might try this, although I found Qemu to be a bit tempermental on my machine.
http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/VirtualPrivacyMachine - malkir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm looking for a bootable/emulatable (both) usb operating system that anonymizes traffic (i.e. auto connects through the tor network), has file encryption, and has all the trappings of a modern operating system. Office Suite, Web Browser, Instant Messenger, and maybe even voip capabilities. If anyone can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it, otherwise I'll probably have to attempt to customize the hell out of one of these.
- d0om, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2agreed, this is very old news
- crxyem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've been using SLAX on a 2GB USBkey works like a charm, I thought about DSL but I like the way SLAX is modular
- Fhwqhgads, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So what if whatever computer you plug this into can't boot from USB?
- stenk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1SLAX is a lot better, and in my opinion easier to setup. Us SLAX Creator to create the USB Stick and your away! Includes some of the best Modules like NDISWRAPPER, MadWifi and my Fav Opera 9.2
- an0nymous, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7Oh for crying out loud. Why minimize? get a 2 or 4 gig drive for less than 100 bucks and load it up with knoppix. Works great and fully featured. Just remember you need a computer new enough to boot from usb.
I recommend the sandisk cruzer. I think they're currently as fast as usb drives get.
It's a little slow due to USB read/write speeds. Not too bad though. - stenk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Then you can use Boot Disks that will load the OS. There are quite a few ways to do this. But these days Newer Motherboards support booting from USB Devices, so I would think it not to much of an issue anymore, for most people.
- aaronm67, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Slax is also really good, and there are a lot of different modules you can pick from.
There are several different types, ranging from 53mb(console) to 200ish mb (full kde desktop).
http://www.slax.org/download.php - radio1mike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Like some other have mentioned Puppy Linux is the way to go. It's slightly larger-- 70MB vs. 50MB (DSL), but it includes the SeaMonkey Mozilla suite, games and, an office-type suite. I have this on 512MB USB key, it's handy in a pinch hella-good!
- aaronm67, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1try slax. It's a little bigger then puppy, but it is modular, which makes it much easier to customize.
www.slax.org - grinin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Tiny!!! :D
- malkir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The earlier post about puppy linux helped me find this. Thanks hugehead83.
http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/qemupuppy/index.html#2.0.0
It's at least a good start. - BrokedownPalace, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Maybe Feather Linux?
http://featherlinux.berlios.de/ - johnkeates, on 08/01/2009, -0/+1Yeah, but remove the U3 first!
- TheOther1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ malkir
I forgot about Blackdog. It's a whole device, powered from the USB port of a host PC. Built-in biometric reader, etc. Debian based and about $200.
http://www.projectblackdog.com/product.html - FKnight, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I can't get DSL because I'm too far from the CO.
- dmsean, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2but how do you do it without a cdrom or floppy :(
- NiteMayr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Adding a comment here to help my own damn memory:
Get qemu for windows, use this to run it (mostly)
qemu.exe -L . -m 512 -cdrom distroname.iso -soundhw all -localtime - aaronm67, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Dugg down because of "Windoze". Seriously. Grow up.
- XTX7X, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Agreed. DSL's interface and applications are nothing compared to puppy's. Puppy linux also seemed to have a little better driver support.
- XTX7X, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Then you use the DSL LiveCD ISO found here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/damnsmall/current/dsl-3.1.iso - XTX7X, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I've tried that, but I had so many driver problems. It didn't want to write to my FAT32 external drive for some reason, and I wasn't going to burn 80 gigs of information to CD. I ended up putting the drive in a windows machine as a slave and copying the data from there.
- XTX7X, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Why is he being dugg down? It's true that gig drives are getting dirt cheap and while being able to fit an OS on a $5 stick is cool, it's totally useless if you actually want to DO something. Knoppix functions like a full-blown distro should.
- XTX7X, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0KNOPPIX SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
* Intel-compatible CPU (i486 or later),
* 16 MB of RAM for text mode, at least 96 MB for graphics mode with KDE (at least 128 MB of RAM is recommended to use the various office products),
* bootable CD-ROM drive, or a boot floppy and standard CD-ROM (IDE/ATAPI or SCSI),
* standard SVGA-compatible graphics card,
* serial or PS/2 standard mouse or IMPS/2-compatible USB-mouse.
Are you kidding me? Who doesn't have an i486 and 96 MB ram? I know some people will say "you can use old machines" to that, but honestly, even with a working OS, they're paperweights. You couldn't even contribute to F@H with a 486.
- eltejano, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Wasn't this on digg recently? I distinctly remember wasting an hour or two at work after reading a post that referenced both a "news" site, and lifehacker.com in the comments.
Oh well, back to wasting time. . .
