I’ve been thinking about Cringley booting into Linux off his USB keyring (okay, it’s a watch) and a quick Google brought DSL (Damn Small Linux) to my attention.
I haven’t got my (badly designed) USB keyring bootable yet, but I will, I will. DSL is only 50 megs, and I quickly made a bootable CD, and in no time I had an arthritic old Windows PC playing Pac-man and all manner of timewasting widgets and doo-dads were at my fingers… ahhh!