You can install some distros on portable memory. An 8GB USB stick is enough to carry around a personalised OS, files and a few games too. Some distros are made particularly to be portable. ana. there are portable versions of distros available. like OpenSUSE portable. Many small distros like Puppy Linux have an option to install on USB Drives. requiring as little as 1 GB of memory space to function. This tutorial shows how to install a USB version of Ubuntu from the Linux Mint distro. If you do not want to install Linux Mint or Ubuntu on you.r desktop. but want to install it on a USB drive; just put in a live CD in the tray and follow the same procedure.

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Go to Menu > All and search for "make usb". If make USB Startup Disk does not appear in the list. go to application manager and search for USB creator. and select and install it. You will also need a live CD of Ubuntu for this step. This will work even if you have an image of Ubuntu. choose "other" and navigate to the image file on the system.

That's it. You can experiment with other small distros, but Ubuntu is a handy distro to carry around.