MiniOS – a lightweight Linux distribution designed for USB drive
Although most distros should work out of the box these days (I think?) nothing beats these smaller ones for interested people and especially “younglings” to try out; “running from a stick”.<p>My first contact with Linux/Unix was through fli4l [1] an open source boot-from-floppy Linux router with which I shared our family’s intermittent 56k dial-up (!) links back in the day (I believe from 2000 onwards it was a single channel ISDN line; what a dream).<p>Then there was the famous Knoppix [2] distro; coming with many German computer magazines at least.<p>So yeah, all in all I’m more of a *BSD “graduate” (main reason being man pages were usually of higher quality; at the time at least) but to this day my favourite flash’n boot distro is still Debian based “headless CLI first” GRML Linux [3] (came with pre-configured zsh way before it was cool, lots of networking tools etc, a Swiss Army knife for the sysadmin).<p>I had been running an old underclocked PC with it as a router and for NFS - for years and only until somewhat recently.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.fli4l.de" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.fli4l.de</a><p>[2] <a href="http://knoppix.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://knoppix.net/</a><p>[3] <a href="https://grml.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://grml.org/</a>