Monday, January 12 2009 @ 01:59 PM EST Contributed by: sde
Thanks to high-capacity USB sticks, you can take a Linux PC with you.
Those of us who have used computers for a few years will remember the days when installing an operating system involved the lengthy task of inserting a number of floppy disks to get the job done.
The earliest versions of Linux, such as Slackware and Red Hat Linux, had to be installed this way and, because of space limitations, it was necessary to download different bootable floppy images depending on the kind of hardware the PC used.
Thankfully, those days are long over, and now the norm for Linux, as well as Windows and OSX, is to install from a CD or DVD. A further development is the live CD – a bootable CD (or DVD) image that allows you to go straight into the operating system without having to install a thing. You’ll regularly find some of the latest popular distributions on PCW cover discs, many of which can be booted, tried or installed in this way.
