Puppy Linux is a niche computing solution that shows the flexibility and usefulness of open-source tools and the staying power of the Linux operating system. Normally in this column, I focus on new ...

The DebianDog distro offers a lot of functionality and customization that frees users from many of the restrictions of a Linux community tied up in its own developmental red tape. DebianDog is fast ...

I noticed a trend in the reader response e-mails to an earlier newsletter sampling various Linux distributions that can boot up from a USB keychain. Here are some of the comments I received: * “Puppy ...

The first thing you need to do when you start considering small Linux distributions is decide what your priorities are - what do you need it for and what are you planning to do with it? There are a ...

Q. I have an old laptop (64Mb memory, 6Gb disk), which I was hoping to bring back to life with Puppy Linux, featured in your Boot Camp series of articles. I burnt a CD and tried it on my main computer ...

Live Linux environments work just like a typical operating system but run entirely from a CD or USB stick – the latter being the most common choice these days. Since nothing is written to the host ...

Quirky Linux is a classic example of what makes Linux such a varied and useful operating system. Puppy Linux developer Barry Kauler earlier this month released Quirky Xerus 64 version 8.6, which comes ...