ZDNET's key takeaways Synex Linux is a minimal distribution for several use cases.Synex boots fast, runs smoothly, and is ...

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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.

On the flip side, the Linux ecosystem has several flavors that feature a bare-minimum number of packages and services.

You're poking the bottom end of the barrel there, hardware wise. For a prepackaged distro which does all that you need (except root DNS. It does DNS caching though) is Astaro Linux. It has a nice web ...

Damn Small Linux (DSL) is a lightweight GNU/Linux distribution designed to breathe new life into old computer hardware by offering a full desktop operating system that runs on a wide range of hardware ...

I need a small linux distro for use in VMware. It needs to be light on resources, using hopefully 32 or 64 Megs of ram. I am considering damn small linux, but I am open to others. I need to be able to ...

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 ...

How small can you make a Docker image? These tiny (and even super-tiny) base images pack a surprising amount of punch for their size. Docker images can get pretty bulky if you’re not careful. Your ...

It should be no surprise, then, that there is a distribution specifically targeting the Asian market. Considering how quickly that segment of the market is growing, the high level of interest in ...