These small distros can have some surprisingly major uses.

Who needs a separate distro when you can tweak the Debian you already have?

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 ...

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 that’s left me wondering why you’d use ...

There was a time, not quite so long ago, when a computer was a beige box that sat on your desk. Before that, computers were big enough to double as desks, and even farther back, they took up a whole ...

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 ...

If you are thinking of transitioning away from Windows to something a little more customizable and a little less corporate. You might be interested in the new Linux-powered PC systems unveiled by ...

The Unison Version 4 tiny embedded Linux real-time OS for ARM Cortex-M3 processors targets Texas Instruments Stellaris MCU family. The OS also works with Microchip PIC32 and dsPIC, Renesas R32C, ADI ...