These small distros can have some surprisingly major uses.

The minimalist Linux distribution updates its base to kernel 6.18.2 and GCC 15.2.0. Tiny Core remains systemd-free.

Who needs a separate distro when you can tweak the Debian you already have?

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 ...

openSUSE Micro is a new Linux distribution geared toward hosting containerized workloads with automated administration and patching. With this open-source, purpose-built operating system, you’ll have ...

An announcement of the revival of linux-tiny, a set of patches aimed at reducing the footprint of the kernel, mainly for the embedded world, has led to a number of linux-kernel threads. The ...

There was a time, not quite so long ago, when a computer was a beige box that sat on your desk. Before that, computers were big enough to double as desks, and even farther back, they took up a whole ...

The Unison Version 4 tiny embedded Linux real-time OS for ARM Cortex-M3 processors targets Texas Instruments Stellaris MCU family. The OS also works with Microchip PIC32 and dsPIC, Renesas R32C, ADI ...

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 ...