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ReggieMicheals:
QNX can run off of a floppy disk with a GUI. It has some bad color depth to it though...

ClosedBSD can also run off a floppy, no gui system, though...

eComStation, Various linux distros, Plan 9, and BeOS all can boot from a CD.

There are many others, and you may boot off the USB if the BIOS allows it...

Refalm:

--- Quote from: ReggieMicheals ---QNX can run off of a floppy disk with a GUI. It has some bad color depth to it though...
--- End quote ---

The colour depth was okay by me, it was the lack of ethernet drivers that was disappointing.

ReggieMicheals:
I mean, it doesn't go over 8-16 bit color depth..on my monitor due to some driver problems

mobrien_12:
You can run linux without swap pretty easily.  I have Fedora Core 4 running right now with KDE and mozilla and xemacs and konqueror and a bunch of other little stuff running.  I have 512 MB and the free command says I have 22 MB RAM unused and 600 kb of the swap file used (some of the swap file is always used if you have one on). Plus theres 254 MB cached... which could be freed up for applications if needed.

Off topic, it's really refreshing compared to the early 2.4 kernels.  Back then the development team decided to start flushing data to swap if it hadn't been used for a while, whether you had free RAM or not.  The idea was to maximize RAM for disk caches, but it was really annoying as a desktop user because it would slow down application switching.

cymon:
USB isn't really that fast, even version 2. Besides, any machine old enough that you might need to make use of the swap would probably have version 1. Though a SCSI flash drive would be sweet.

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