With the release of version 3.6, the Tiny Core crew have added a GUI method for hard disk installation. As I have, on previous occasions, banged on about this omission, I thought I'd take a look. In ...

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 ...

I'm sure many of you have at least heard of Tiny Core Linux—legends of how small it is, how little it takes it to run a system with it and even now how it's been ported to run on Raspberry Pi. It's an ...

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 ...

A little while ago, I reported on how someone got a modern-day Linux distro running on a 30-year-old CPU. The key here is that it was a modern distro; while the tinkerer could have easily dug through ...

You may think of operating systems as something you install once and leave on a hard drive. But not every OS needs to tie itself down to a machine. Portable operating ...

The first name on the list, Puppy Linux is a must-try Linux distro for low-end PC users. It is renowned for its extremely small size and minimal system requirement. The distro is designed to run ...