Damn Small Linux
November 1, 2007
If you liked the post about Firefox running from a USB drive, you’ll love this one. Damn Small Linux, or DSL, is a linux distribution capable of booting from a USB drive. This tiny operating system can run completely within your system’s memory, requiring only 128MB of ram. Pretty cool, huh? It comes with command line utilities, media apps, Firefox, and office apps, among other things.
I’ve actually used DSL from a bootable cd to recover data after a hard drive crash on multiple occasions — what a handy tool. It sure beats paying someone else to recover your data 
