Who doesn’t like cool and nerdy things? I have to say that I am a very big fan of VirtualBox. I don’t even use VMWare anymore. Don’t get me wrong though. VMWare is very good but VirtualBox is much simpler and I swear it’s faster on my machines. Plus, VirtualBox leaves less of a visible footprint on one’s system.

Alright, I like VirtualBox. So what? Well…I was using VirtualBox to run Damn Small Linux (among other OS’s) on Windows XP but I found that it wasn’t necessary if one just downloads the “embedded” version of Damn Small Linux (DSL). The embedded version is rolled with QEMU, a generic virtualizer. So all that you have to do to run DSL on top of Windows is unzip the 50 MB archive file an double-click on the pendrive.bat file. Voila! Say hello to Linux without installing anything.