We list the best lightweight Linux distros, to make it simple and easy to run a simpler Linux OS on older x86 computers. This means you shouldn't expect these distros to provide blistering performance ...

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 ...

Fedora has gained a lot of popularity among power users for providing cutting-edge features while maintaining a stable and ...

Bon Adamson is a writer with a passion for technology and help desk experience, with a particular interest in Apple's product ecosystem. Bon has been writing for the majority of his life. He is ...

When running Kubernetes clusters for development, the operating system’s footprint can make or break performance and agility. Heavy, general-purpose Linux distributions waste memory and CPU cycles on ...

A Linux distribution on the desktop is an amalgam of the tortoise and the little train that could. Ever so slowly, it continues to move onward and upward, ticking away the market share percentages by ...

I have an older (circa) 2003 system (Niveus AV Storage Server) that I use to store Movie Rips (DVD, Blu-Ray, HD-DVD). It has a 600MHZ Via Eden CPU with accompanying Via CLE266 northbridge. It's ...

There are Linux distributions out there for pretty much every taste and purpose, but every once in a while I’ll come across one that seems especially intriguing. That happened this week with the ...