Josh Glenn’s Blog

A couple years ago, I tinkered with the Linux OS, but for one purpose only, and it turned out to be way more effort to learn than I was willing to put in at the time. The last few days I have really been amazed to see how far things have come.

The last couple days, I have been using a Linux distribution called Ubuntu. I find it every bit as good as, if not better than, any Windows OS thus far. I am only inches away from migrating to Linux completely!

Well, today I decided to learn a little about Linux. I don’t know exactly where to begin, so, I searched google for the term “linux”. Sounds logical, huh? Let’s see where that gets me…

Well, I came across linux.com. Once there, I started reading about some of the different linux distributions. What I found really interested me, a particular Linux distribution called DSL (Damn Small Linux). DSL is a linux distribution which is small enough to fit on a business card sized CD, and run on a machine as small as a 486 with 16Mb of RAM. This interests me because I think it would be cool to set up a Linux system to boot from a USB drive.

As it turns out, you can even run DamnSmallLinux (DSL) from within Microsoft Windows using a type of virtual machine. This is a good way to check out DSL without a large investment of time and energy.