Fedora is a fantastic, all-around Linux distribution, and it's my distro of choice for everything from ancient laptops to my ...

A "live" distro simply runs from some form of removable media — in this case, a USB drive — and Linux is particularly well-suited for live deployment.

Debian and Rocky Linux both require more than 1GB of RAM at boot, while Puppy Linux is the lightest Linux distro, utilizing just 229MB of RAM. Q4OS follows closely behind with 336MB.

Slackware isn't exactly the most user-friendly, but Slackel opens it up to the masses - offering four spins to choose from.

This Linux distro for gaming throws away the stock Ubuntu kernel. Instead, it embraces the mainline Linux kernel. But that’s not all. The developers meticulously compile this kernel with low ...

If you do get an infection, it disappears as soon as you reboot. Here are five ways to use live Linux in your business, as well as pointers to distributions best suited to each particular task.

Specific to Linux Mint, the distro often has issues installing programs from personal package archives (PPAs) instead of using a package manager. It doesn't happen every time, but it is a known issue.

If there are instructions for how to create a Live USB from within Linux, it's usually only applicable to users already using that distro (i.e. from a Live CD copy).