What do you use your USB flash drive for? Have you considered running Linux from it? A Linux Live USB flash drive is a great way to try out Linux without making any changes to your computer.

Nothing can beat having a great Linux distro installed on a super-fast hard drive, with all your favourite apps configured just how you like them and all your files at your fingertips. But this ...

The guide requires a thumb drive of 256 MB or larger, but other than that it should work on most USB drives. Also, in order to run Linux from your USB drive, your BIOS will have to support booting ...

Creating a bootable USB drive let's you get hands-on experience with Linux without necessarily overwriting your system.

Because the Fedora Live USB Creator is written using Python and Qt, it's completely cross-platform – that Windows program runs just the same on Linux, albeit with a few dependencies that need to ...

Run Linux from a clean USB If you think you’ve got your hands full trying to run Linux off a USB drive, don’t worry, there’s a lot of help on the internet.

Here's how to create your own disaster-recovery boot drive with Linux, and how to force Windows to shut down installing updates.

If you’re really ambitious, you can use a flash drive to temporarily boot an entire Linux operating system. (Lincoln Spector explains how in Boot LInux From a Portable USB Drive With Universal ...