We've written about portable apps quite a number of times in the past, but why bother with just apps when there's a whole OS that'll fit on a 50MB USB stick? Damn Small Linux, sometimes abbreviated ...

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'm running TINY linux (based on Slackware) in my IBM Thinkpad 355CS 486/33 Mhz 20 mb RAM. I'm am completely new to the Linux OS (I learn as I go) but I'm currently stumped on how to get X to fire up.

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.

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 ...

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.

DSPsoft Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA) has unveiled UnixCE, a small footprint "Linux-like" operating system for resource constrained Internet appliances and mobile devices. The company's founder and CEO, Vasant ...

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 ...

[jamesone111] bought a Transcend WifiSD card, presumably for photography, but it may just have been because he heard that they’re actually tiny Linux servers. He read a post about these cards on the ...

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 ...