There was a time when the gulf between a new computer and one a decade or more old was so large as to be insurmountable; when a Pentium was the chip to have an older computer had a 16-bit 8086 or 286.

Also in today’s open source roundup: A roundup of the smallest Linux distributions, and have we hit peak screen size for smartphones? Linux has much to offer any computer user, but we’re all human and ...

Most people take operating system size for granted — until the moment it matters. Maybe you have a decade-old machine collecting dust in a corner, and you're hoping you'll find an operating system ...

I want to install some flavour of Linux on a small (2 gig) hard drive. I want it to be as functional as possible, while still leaving a couple of hundred megs of space for misc files.<P>How big is a ...

When it comes to Linux, there is no one size fits all answer. But, unlike other desktop operating systems, Linux doesn’t try to squeeze you into a systems that’s too large or too small. Instead, Linux ...