One Linux distribution I tried recently and was very impressed with was Puppy. Puppy is a very small operating system, with an download size of about 100 Mb, compared to Ubuntu which takes up a full cd at around 700Mb. But what makes Puppy truly unique is that it loads completely into your computers ram. In essence, this makes Puppy very, very fast. To put it into perspective it took me a couple of days to see the system detectably pause while loading an application.
Another great feature about Puppy is that it is small enough to store entirely onto a USB drive, which is just really cool. This means that you can plug your flash drive with puppy installed into any computer and load your operating system into its ram, without disturbing the hard drive at all. If any of this sounds intriguing, you can find the download here. And for a more snazzy, but larger version of Puppy, try the Macpup version. Enjoy!
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