Could I run a Linux Live Trial from a USB stick

Curious if this would work as the PC I'm considering putting Linux on no longer has a CD drive...?

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/category/new-usb-linux-tutorials/

This site seems to have a bunch of tutorials on how to boot into Linux from USB flash drives.

Great thanks, I'll have a look at that :)

You can install Fedora Core or many other Linux distributions from or to a USB stick with very little hassle.

DSL has a target distro-size less than 50MB's
i run DSL-N (<100MB's) on a 128MB-Stick..

just activate the Boot-from option in the board-BIOS