Linux on a stick
Most of the Linux limelight is taken by a handful of desktop and server distributions, but there are more GNU/Linux distributions than you can shake a stick at, and they are built to fill every specialist niche and cranny in the computer universe.
Some of the more interesting distros are the smaller examples which may boot from a USB flash memory stick (LiveUSB), run entirely in small amounts of RAM, or work on older PCs with little disk space and less memory. Some are fully functioning distros with office suites and web browsers; others have a well defined purpose, to act as a repair and data retrieval tool to cut and paste and fix the broken bits of your system.
In the real world these GNU/Linux distributions, stripped of the relative excess that we have come to expect of the modern desktop, have an even more useful function - as a learning tool for discovering how your computer works and how the tools at our disposal can make the computer do what you want it to do.
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