If you go to distrowatch.com and look down the rankings you will see at number 24 a distribution called SLAX.
It is very hard for distro developers to make their particular distribution stand out. SLAX is not one of them.
SLAX weighs in at 210mb and is built to run from a USB drive as opposed to being installed to the hard drive. What you end up with is a fully functional portable operating system.
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