These small distros can have some surprisingly major uses.

The minimalist Linux distribution updates its base to kernel 6.18.2 and GCC 15.2.0. Tiny Core remains systemd-free.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...