## Entry 0 // 2022-06-25T10:04:08,982270545-04:00
I've recently had the itch to explore alternative operating systems again.
It's been a while, but the new employer has much tighter controls over our
work computers than previous. Trying to breath new life in to this old girl.
Ubuntu runs fine but I want options. Personally, I hate dual booting, it just
feels dirty. I've acquired a small USB flash drive which barely extends past
the outside of the USB port. I'm going to try to find a "live" distro with
persistent storage that I like for it. The advantage being that I can choose
to boot straight to the USB stick or provide it as a target disk for a vm and
use it without rebooting.
## Entry 1 // 2022-06-25T10:32:59,937515565-04:00
This quote amused me:
> The footprint is very big as MX Linux needs 5GB of hard disk space
The idea that an operating system is considered "small" at "only" 5GB is
absurd to me. I remember using DSL (Damn Small Linux) and it only needd a few
MBs of space. I understand that storage is cheap now but I'm looking for
something that can go on a small flash drive, ever byte counts!
## Entry 2 // 2022-06-25T12:17:35,644713276-04:00
I've installed [Antix](
https://antixlinux.com/) on the little 32GB USB drive
and set it up with persistence and told it to load itself to ram. This thing
is really quite slick. Booting it up takes a few seconds longer than Ubuntu
but once the system is up, everything feels so much faster.
