Review of various Linux distributions and their configurations to run entirely from RAM

After a long time I decided to give another try at Slax Linux. I found a very good page documenting the startup process and some interesting features. Unfortunately there are also negative points.

The traditional method to create a bootable USB stick with an installation of a Linux Live distribution requires to dedicate the full USB stick to that purpose, but the total amount of required space is just few GB and the rest is wasted. This article will describe how to overcome the issue so it is not required anymore to decide the purpose of the device in advance.