Try this tiny Linux distro when nothing else will fit - here's why ...

Last week we were talking about Damn Small Linux, but before we continue on with that we need to mention a few other items. First, you will remember from two weeks ago that the standard configuration ...

Plasma Mobile is a user interface for mobile Linux distributions that includes a mix of features borrowed from the KDE Plasma desktop environment and mixes in some mobile-specific components designed ...

Linux is making the jump to version 7.0, and with it come some big changes to the kernel that will benefit all kinds of users ...

Collax has made it no secret that it intends to battle Microsoft for the small business server market and is aggressively seeking soldiers in the form of solution providers. And with the recall and ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- It might have seemed to be the best possible week for boosters of the Linux open-source operating system. As their nemesis, Microsoft Corp., was getting sanctioned by Europe for ...

OK hey all, I am using Damn Small Linux as I type here on my old Dell laptop. I like it, it is very snappy, the HD is powered down, so I'm expecting good battery life, etc etc.<br><br>The problem ...

It doesn’t give me any pleasure in saying this, but the evidence is overwhelming that Linux is not huge on the desktop. Saying it has maybe 1% of the desktop marketshare is probably not realistic, but ...

Officially, a version of IBM’s Lotus Notes client for Linux wasn’t supposed to arrive until sometime in 2007 with the planned next release of the Notes platform. But IBM surprised customers last week ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to sell inexpensive server computers that run the free Linux operating system, a growing market in which analysts had said they may be losing sales to ...

A lightweight Linux distribution can revive old hardware. Puppy Linux and Linux Lite achieve this in very different ways. Both of these distributions can be used for free. Do you have an old computer ...

There was a time when the gulf between a new computer and one a decade or more old was so large as to be insurmountable; when a Pentium was the chip to have an older computer had a 16-bit 8086 or 286.