Operating systems are complex and large pieces of software, and the same goes for Linux systems. Fortunately, there are still plenty of small Linux distros available. They're also quite useful things ...

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

Linux does the job admirably, with even the most full-featured distro like Debian being able to slot into the flash memory provided you're economical with what you install (scrap Gnome and KDE for ...

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.

Anyway, back to Damn Small Linux. As we noted, it is a stripped-down version of Knoppix, which is itself already a stripped-down version of Linux. First, let us explain one of the finer points of Damn ...

I want to install some flavour of Linux on a small (2 gig) hard drive. I want it to be as functional as possible, while still leaving a couple of hundred megs of space for misc files.<P>How big is a ...

basically I want something like the LRP that uses the new kernel (for stateful packet inspection). The distro also needs to include some kind of remote admin ability (via SSH preferred) intrusion ...