DietPi earned a special spot in my SBC journey a while back. It's wildly different from a traditional SBC distro and tries to take complexity out of the equation. I always praise its Whiptail menus, ...

[Nagy Krisztián] had an Intel 286 CPU, only… There was no motherboard to install it in. Perhaps not wanting the processor to be lonely, [Nagy] built a simulated system to bring the chip back to life.

Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...