What a difference 233 lines of code can make. That’s the size of a small new patch to the Linux kernel’s scheduler that has been found to reduce the average latency of the desktop by about 60 times.

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 running TINY linux (based on Slackware) in my IBM Thinkpad 355CS 486/33 Mhz 20 mb RAM. I'm am completely new to the Linux OS (I learn as I go) but I'm currently stumped on how to get X to fire up.

Whoa, what's with this layout!<BR>Anyway, I'm looking for a distro to put on my trusty P2 233, strictly as an internet terminal.<BR>I tried linux before, but had to go back to Windows since there are ...

ShaRPiKeebo is a new tiny Linux computer complete with a daylight readable screen, keyboard and long-range transceiver. Measuring just 6 x 11 x 1.5 cm and powered by a Raspberry Pi (RPi) Zero W or 2W.

A new small form factor Linux development board called the BreadBee will be launching via the Crowd Supply website in the near future offering a ARM Cortex A7 development board based on a relatively ...

DSPsoft Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA) has unveiled UnixCE, a small footprint "Linux-like" operating system for resource constrained Internet appliances and mobile devices. The company's founder and CEO, Vasant ...

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 ...

Ever since the tiny $35 Raspberry Pi PC began shipping earlier this year, there’s been virtually no limit to the fresh uses and extensions that have been envisioned for it. “I just wanted to see if it ...

IT administrators who need to deploy and manage very small desktop or kiosk-style PCs may want to keep an eye on the development of Linutop. The gadget, about the size of a portable CD player, is an ...

Is your business ready to take the open-source plunge? We test five leading desktop Linux distributions and come up with one winner. As desktop Linux becomes ever more professional, and with Microsoft ...

Waterloo, Canada — RoweBots Research, Inc., has launched two ultra-tiny embedded-Linux compatible RTOSes that for the first time enable Linux and POSIX compatible development of Renesas' R8C, M16C and ...