In the latest round of upgrades and new installs of openSUSE around here I decided to take a different approach and use the network install and install from a USB stick rather than a DVD. While I was ...

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You can now boot any netbook – indeed, any computer – from your USB stick. Go give it a try! If you want to try out Linux first you’ll see one of the menu options when you start up is to just try out ...

These days, it only takes an increasingly-cheap USB thumb drive and a program like UNetbootin to create a portable Linux desktop you can run on any computer that can boot from a USB port. But check ...