is puppy linux good to mess around with ?

Its very cut down bare bones. Rather mess with Xubuntu. PL is okayish.. but not that great.
 
Any distro can boot from USB, just read up on how to do this in their respective wikis.

The only way you learn is to download and mess with as many distros as possible. In the old days we had to have dedicated partitions for this and it took a heck of lot of time to experiment with the different distros, now with VirtualBox you have no excuse not to mess with whichever distro, so yes, it is good to mess with it, and Vector Linux, Slackware (more source based), Fedora, Mandriva (RPM based), Ubuntu, Debian (deb based) and every single distro you can lay your hands on.
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I started off working with linux on puppy linux and DSL(damn small linux) because the old pentium 3 laptop I had was limited in space and ram. Puppy linux is great if you are limited in pc hardware resources, as it will run on almost any old machine and it is a decent platform to upgrade from once you get the basic hang of things. I struggled a bit getting my network up and running, but once I figured it out I managed to do everything I needed from an OS.

I recently bought an acer aspire one and installed puppy linux 5 which is a few levels up from the first distro I worked on, and even though it has had a bit of an overhaul graphically speaking, it seems the engine is still suited for older machines. If you want to fiddle with linux and at the same time experience a more refined environment I recommend Linux Mint 9. I am currently dual booting Linux Mint 9, ubuntu 9.04 Net Book Release, and windows 7 starter on my netbook and they all run very nicely.

I also recommend downloading as many distros as possible and fiddling with the live bootable versions to see which you like best.
Download Unetbootin and convert your flashdrive into a bootdisk with any live distro iso you can download.
possibly check the following distros out:
puppy linux 5
linuxMint 9
edubuntu
linuxMCE (media Centre Edition)
DSL (damnSmallLinux) - (for veeeeery old machines - super tiny linux distro! similar to windows95 regarding style and functionality...)
OpenSuse
xubuntu
arklinux

You would soon see that ubuntu is the superior distro regarding support and add-on availability, but linuxMint is not too far behind it in terms of the kind of punch you'd expect an operating system to pack.
puppy linux in this regard will be the kind of distro that would attack you with a tissue... fiddling with it would just turn you off linux in the long run. rather fiddle with MINT 9
 
Puppy is great for getting the look and feel. It is now based on ubuntu.
It makes and ideal system for a usb stick and I have used to fix a few windows machines, configure routers etc.
Really is a good tool to have around. The seamonkey browser is super fast,
 
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