This is a good question. Try some live CD Distro's. Slax (Slackware based) And try Puppy. Both are fast and boot fast. No installation on the hard drive and able to mount a hard drive or a usb P drive to save files to. Second, try PC-BSD. I was really impressed with the ease of install and how fast it runs! It uses pbi's for package installs. PC-BSD has a web site to download the pbi's all preconfigured! Just dubble click the file and the install does the rest! super simple and easy. Plays music and there is a pbi for codecs. Not a ton of packages, but lots of nice ones most people would need. Nice KDE desktop. Hope this helps X
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This is a good question. Try some live CD Distro's. Slax (Slackware based) And try Puppy. Both are fast and boot fast. No installation on the hard drive and able to mount a hard drive or a usb P drive to save files to. Second, try PC-BSD. I was really impressed with the ease of install and how fast it runs! It uses pbi's for package installs. PC-BSD has a web site to download the pbi's all preconfigured! Just dubble click the file and the install does the rest! super simple and easy. Plays music and there is a pbi for codecs. Not a ton of packages, but lots of nice ones most people would need. Nice KDE desktop.
Hope this helps
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