Tiny Core Linux is as lightweight as a GUI-based Linux distribution can be. Jack Wallen walks you through the installation that makes this operating system unique. The Tiny Core desktop is as minimal ...

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 ...

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 ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As someone who's been around the block a few hundred times with technology, planned obsolescence has long bothered me. When Microsoft released ...

The first name on the list, Puppy Linux is a must-try Linux distro for low-end PC users. It is renowned for its extremely small size and minimal system requirement. The distro is designed to run ...

Lightweight operating systems can make a slow PC fast, but searching for the absolute smallest ISO or highest synthetic benchmark may be the wrong approach. Rather, you want to focus on tangible ...