These small distros can have some surprisingly major uses.

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 ...

The bootable rescue environment I reach for when systems won’t start.

The Raspberry Pi Zero has some new competition. A Chinese company is running a crowdfunding campaign for a tiny computer-on-a-module called the Lichee Pi Zero that’s priced as low as $6. It has an ARM ...

I just installed Tiny Linux, a stripped down slackware installation....no GUI on my old 486 laptop. I would like to install GNU's "make". I downloaded the make-3.79.1.tar.gz file and have no idea of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...