Windows: Having a full Linux operating system on a USB thumb drive is pretty neat. Having that OS customized, with your own favorite apps and all your settings intact, is far more helpful. This ...

The distro nobody talks about is beating the ones everybody uses.

Linux has always come across to most people as something too complicated to install and learn. But with Linux Live USB Creator, you can now install one of many Linux operating systems onto your USB ...

As we mentioned last week, a new version of Puppy Linux is out and, because Puppy is extremely lightweight, it's an ideal candidate for installation on a USB stick or similar portable storage device.

We've written about portable apps quite a number of times in the past, but why bother with just apps when there's a whole OS that'll fit on a 50MB USB stick? Damn Small Linux, sometimes abbreviated ...

This shouldn’t work—but it absolutely does.