Posted 04/04/2009 at 12:55:09am

For netbooks, older laptops, or resource constrained desktop PCs you owe it to yourself to try Puppy Linux or Slax.  Both are available as LiveCDs and lend themselved to thumbdrives so one can try them out before committing to an install.  BTW if your only experience with bootable CDs is BartPE (sooo slooow) you really must try one of the above mentioned just to learn how flrxible and snappy Linux can be. 

Thanks for the thumbdrive conversion links