NewsForge: Run GNU/Linux From a USB Pen Drive

“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…”

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