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>> My PC at work is barely powerful enough to run *one* OS, let alone
>> two. It _would_ be quite useful for test purposes though.
>
> That's one of the main reasons I went for a quad core with lots of
> memory when I upgraded.
I can see how that would be the case. ;-)
>> However, the idea of being able to just plug in a USB stick and click
>> an icon and instantly have a complete Linux environment set up exactly
>> the way I want it is... pretty neat, actually.
>
> You might have problems with IO speed if you do that. USB is a lot
> slower than SATA.
Depends what you want to do. Running Damn Small Linux from a USB drive
is probably *faster* than running it from a CD-ROM due to the vastly
superior seek time. (CD-ROM drives typically have a horrible seek time!)
Also, DSL is based on KNOPPIX and uses a cloop compressed filesystem
image, so there's less data to shift (but more CPU load).
If I get bored enough maybe I'll benchmark it. But either way, it's a
trivial matter to copy a folder off the USB drive and onto a spare
folder on the local HD, run it for a while, and then just delete it when
you're done. That's about the easiest install/uninstall procedure
imaginable! ;-)
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