Linux got its start in the 1990s as an alternative operating system for older PCs that didn’t have the horsepower to run newer versions of Windows. So it seems a bit ironic, but not totally surprising ...

The Tiny Core Project offers up the tiniest of Linux distros, shipping three variants on which you can build your own environments. The lightest edition is Core, weighing in at just 17MB, which comes ...

With a heavy focus on user choice and freedom, jumping into the world of Linux distros can be quite disorienting – especially ...

I'm using a SPARCstation 5 with a 70MHz processor and 256MB of RAM. Solaris, OpenBSD, and NetBSD install just fine.<P>What I'm finding is that Linux distros that I've used on newer UltraSPARCs aren't ...

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.

The antiX distro offers a solid operating system that many other Linux communities fail to deliver. It is unassuming but reliable and focuses on performance rather than prettiness. That last element ...

On 03:14:08 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT, aka Coordinated Universal Time) January 19, 2038 (that's a Tuesday), the world ends. Well, not in the biblical Book of Revelations sense. But, what will happen is ...

New versions of both Mozilla's browser and its subsidiary MZLA's messaging client are here – with some bad news for users of older kit.… Firefox 144 arrived yesterday, closely followed by its cousin, ...