Software Physics

I’ve been looking at a number of the small linux distros lately. What cool tools those are! I have a Damn Small Linux LiveCD that I run inside of a VPC; it’s a great tool. The whole dsl iso is 50meg and the memory footprint, even when running virtualized, is trivial. Also, using VPC as the host allows me to run the livecd “stateless” as it’s meant to be and to separate the state management into the VPC which takes care of keeping my settings between invocations. The thing boots from a saved configuration faster than starting Quicken and requires less system resources, very cool.

I’ve also tried this using QEMU as the virtualization layer (using kqemu to accellerate things). This works and is totally free but the MS VM technology blows the doors off of the accelerated emulation stuff.