If you haven't had a chance to play with a small-size Linux distro, I highly recommend it. Damn Small Linux (DSL) is one of the leaders in this space and it just got bumped to version 2.3.
Why would an SMBer care? 'Cause these lil guys are versatile:
You can distribute them on mini-CDs as smart business cards with pre-configured visuals in place of resumes or marketing brochures.
You can boot them off a USB ThumbDrive, essentially carrying an OS on a stick.
And off that same USB drive you can select a boot option that'll boot the thing inside a host operating system--yeah, that's Linux inside of Windows, no muss no fuss.
Even run the whole thing inside of RAM, so older PCs with as little as 128MB of RAM can run pretty darn quickly.
Here's a screenshot of version 2.3.
Posted by Oliver Rist on March 31, 2006 02:13 PM
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