Starting with the 2.5 kernel, all physical and virtual devices in a system are visible to user space in a hierarchal fashion through sysfs. /sbin/hotplug provides a notification to user space when any ...

This week's release of the Fedora 9 Linux distribution makes putting a full-fledged desktop on a portable USB thumb drive a three-click affair. Even better, you don't need Linux installed to create it ...

Having a version of desktop Linux on a USB drive isn’t of much use unless you can store files to it. Jack Wallen shows you how to create such an instance with mkusb. If you can only read one tech ...

I've tested many portable Linux distros, but PorteuX is the one I keep on my USB drive ...

A Linux Live USB flash drive is a great way to try out Linux without making any changes to your computer. It's also handy to have around in case Windows won't boot--allowing access to your hard disks- ...