It's easy to carry around useful files on a USB key, but it's even better to carry around a complete OS and set of apps, customised to just how want them. In this guide, Andrew Spode Miller shows how to install the tiny 25MB Slitaz Linux OS onto a USB key so that you can make any PC feel like your own.
Now that you can buy USB flash drives with capacities up to 32GB, you can practically carry your life around on your key chain. However, it’s one thing to have a collection of useful files, and quite another to have a complete OS and set of applications in your pocket, ready to turn any PC you find into your own truly personal machine. It’s perfectly possible, and in this article we’ll show you how to install a Linux distribution to a flash drive and use it to boot any computer for the ultimate in portability.
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