I have a X20 IBM laptop, and was going to install Red hat on it since I knew I could copy the iso's on a fat partition and boot the boot disk kernel, also on the fat partition, through grub.

In my previous article, I discussed the things one should consider when purchasing a laptop on which Linux will run. This time I would like discuss a few ways to get the laptop up and running with a ...

I am terrified at the idea of having to run windows on this poor old thing, can anyone recommend a linux distrib that is floppy-based install, and contains all or most of the needs I outlined above?

This is the third article in the series ``Building Tiny Linux Systems with BusyBox''. You'll need to refer to my last article (part 2) on kernel building in the January/February 2001 issue of ELJ if ...

It's 2024 2025 and floppies are still cool. Maintain that coolness by building your own floppy-sized Linux distro like it's 1999. This project is buildable by a gcc toolchain provided by your ...

This repository provides a set of tools and configs to build a x86-64 Linux distribution with the very latest software (kernel and userland), fitting entirely on a 1.44 MB floppy disk and booting ...

The London-based British Linux distributor Canonical has just released Ubuntu 23.10 (“Mantic Minotaur”), the latest version of its extremely popular Linux distribution, which is mainly aimed at ...

Why won’t Linux install on modern Lenovo laptops? The discovery of this problem set off a recent firestorm. But contrary to initial speculation, it’s not that Microsoft is forcing Lenovo to block the ...

There was a time when booting Linux from a floppy disk was the norm, but of course, those days are long gone. Even if you still had a working 3.5 inch drive, surely the size of the modern kernel alone ...