There was a time when the gulf between a new computer and one a decade or more old was so large as to be insurmountable; when a Pentium was the chip to have an older computer had a 16-bit 8086 or 286.

Damn Small Linux (DSL) has officially received an alpha test 2024 release after a presumed final release back in 2007. Plus, Linux has always been about choice, so variety in your lightweight Linux ...

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 ...

i've come across a quite underpowered old laptop. p-90 or so, 8 megs of ram, etc. rather than just toss it or bust it apart for fun, i'd like to put in an 802.11b card and install a lightweight distro ...

I want to install some flavour of Linux on a small (2 gig) hard drive. I want it to be as functional as possible, while still leaving a couple of hundred megs of space for misc files.<P>How big is a ...

Today we’re going to look at Linux. Not as a competitor to Windows and not as a repository of proprietary code (as SCO would have you believe), but as an alternative operating system that might have a ...

Linux 6.17-rc7 is out, and it's looking good. The latest release candidate is full of small, random changes across various drivers and subsystems, from GPUs to memory management.