Linux is now rapidly coming into the mainstream. While it has remained popular in the server category, it's rise in the desktop market has begun recently.

One of the reasons for its rapid rise in the desktop arena has been the development of the "Linux Live CD" - spearheaded by Knoppix.
However these systems have now become far more than CD based distros. Therefore I have coined a new term and acronym - MOLLS - Mobile Live Linux Software Systems.

With rapid developments in the above mentioned systems, we now have a variety of such software collections for various purposes created by a method called "remastering".

One can carry the whole system with you in many different devices,
from a DVD to a flash card to the ever popular pen drives. If we do
not want to boot with a pen drive, now we can just shove it into a USB drive even on  MS Windows machine and work with Linux on it.

One of  these systems - DSL- offer customization to a high degree without any remastering, by simply adding what you want to the ISO or the CD and burning the CD.

Can your  hard disk installs offer all of these advantages? Can you
upgrade so easily, can you reboot to a "virginal" state, use what
software you want, keep your settings, your extensions,
your flexibility? Use your pendrives, your compact flash, your qemu,
all the new technology.

Compare this to installing an OS - just the OS - of that other system to the HDD, then install the other software
one by one. To upgrade these?

MOLLS!

They are so much more secure, very personal and elegant!

So mobile.

Clunky/noisy/immovable/inflexible/time consuming/ HDD installlations ?

Are they any longer necessary?