Porteus is a complete Linux operating system optimized to run from CD, USB flash drive, hard drive, or other bootable storage media.
It's small (under 300Mb) and insanely fast, which allows you to start up and get online while most other operating systems are left spitting dust.
Porteus comes in both 32 & 64 bit and aims to keep on the bleeding edge. It also supports several different languages, and the user forum has language sections.
MajorGeeks mirrors are the Cinnamon edition. Other editions and betas can be downloaded from their FTP here.
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