Tiny Core Linux is a true example of just how small a functional desktop operating system can be, even in 2025.

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 ...

Two micro Linux servers enter, one micro Linux server leaves. Arstechnica is featuring a good ole’ thunderdome battle royale between two micro Linux servers. The two contenders are the Gumstix ...

I’ll forgive you if you’ve never heard of Yinlips. The company typically makes portable MP3 and MP4 players, not computers. But these days the price gap between computers and portable media players ...

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 ...

Several projects exist that purport to be small, run-in-memory distributions. The most popular probably is Puppy Linux. Puppy has spawned several variations, and I have used it several times myself on ...