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 ...

Hypervisors like VirtualBox or VMware can run just about any OS as long as you've got enough hardware power. However, just ...

I'm sure many of you have at least heard of Tiny Core Linux—legends of how small it is, how little it takes it to run a system with it and even now how it's been ported to run on Raspberry Pi. It's an ...

A little while ago, I reported on how someone got a modern-day Linux distro running on a 30-year-old CPU. The key here is that it was a modern distro; while the tinkerer could have easily dug through ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As someone who's been around the block a few hundred times with technology, planned obsolescence has long bothered me. When Microsoft released ...

There are a number of reasons you might want to install a Linux-based operating system like Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, or Linux Mint on a computer. These operating systems are free to use, which means ...

As LJ readers well know, Linux drives many of the technologies we use every day, from smart TVs to Web servers. Linux is everywhere—except most homes and classrooms. That's a problem if we want to ...