You can revive your aging PC with a lightweight Linux distro such as Puppy Linux and Linux Lite. But which one should you choose?

Yazi provides a clear, responsive interface with file previews and context that help speed up navigation. You can navigate ...

The first thing you need to do when you start considering small Linux distributions is decide what your priorities are - what do you need it for and what are you planning to do with it? There are a ...

Once upon a time operating systems shipped on a stack of 1.4MP floppy disks. These days most come on DVDs because the installer files can’t fit on 640MB CDs. And then there’s Tiny Core Linux. Tiny ...

I just installed Tiny Linux, a stripped down slackware installation....no GUI on my old 486 laptop. I would like to install GNU's "make". I downloaded the make-3.79.1.tar.gz file and have no idea of ...

Now that Microsoft’s Edge web browser is based on Google’s open source Chromium project, it behaves a lot like Google’s Chrome browser… and for the most part ...

Whoa, what's with this layout!<BR>Anyway, I'm looking for a distro to put on my trusty P2 233, strictly as an internet terminal.<BR>I tried linux before, but had to go back to Windows since there are ...

Targeting small, price-conscious embedded devices, Gumstix Inc recently introduced a single-board-computer family based on Intel’s PXA255 processor with Xscale technology. The 20×80×8-mm Gumstix ...

An announcement of the revival of linux-tiny, a set of patches aimed at reducing the footprint of the kernel, mainly for the embedded world, has led to a number of linux-kernel threads. The ...

What a difference 233 lines of code can make. That’s the size of a small new patch to the Linux kernel’s scheduler that has been found to reduce the average latency of the desktop by about 60 times.

This year has already been a notable one on many technological fronts, but certainly one of the more exciting ones among them is the Linux-powered revolution that’s taking place in personal computing.

Last week we were talking about Damn Small Linux, but before we continue on with that we need to mention a few other items. First, you will remember from two weeks ago that the standard configuration ...