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SLAX again


SLAX — you”re my favorite.
I’ve tried out about 12 Linux distributions on my USB drive. Among them: NimbleX, Mandriva One, Fedora, Ubuntu, KNOPPIX, PCLinuxOS, Puppy Linux, Gentoo, openSUSE, and many more. I’ve even tried making my own, using Linux From Scratch (more about that later). Every time I installed a new distro, I still remembered [...]

SLAX – Linux for USB


On Makes Me Wonder, I once blogged about putting Linux onto a USB drive. It worked great, but it started up very slowly. So I set out looking for a lighter-weight Live USB distribution, and stumbled upon SLAX, a small distribution based on Slackware. It starts up within 30 seconds (off my USB drive!) and [...]