The best Live CD

[Jim Higson]

> DSL (Damn Small Linux) can do most of the stuff the other two can, but
> it is a stripped down version. It runs Fluxbox window manager and
> doesn't have a lot of graphical eye candy, but it's meant not to for
> running on slow systems. It is very capable, but you want to know how to
> use the command line. It can be installed to the hard drive like the
> others, and it has an update program so you can download more 'extra'
> programs that didn't fit in the 50mb distribution.

I use DSL even on newer computers. It has two big advantages:

fits on a credit card, cary anywhere
since it's only 50megs, the whole OS can be copied to RAM at boot with the 
toram switch (provided computer has about 96megs or more) - *very* fast!