Linux is an operating system that you can customize to your needs. Learn how to use these tiny Linux utilities to improve your system performance.

Damn Small Linux, or DSL, first appeared in 2005 as a tiny distro for the old machines of the day, and after a long hiatus it’s back with a 2024 edition.

The result is tiny enough to be realistically usable on a 32-bit machine, as this vulture is old enough to feel Linux jolly well ought to be, even in this age of Javascript-based desktops that ...

The more recent S15Pup64 22.12 version of Puppy Linux (pictured) is based on Slackware64 15.0. The distro is full of apps, belying its small size – some are quite unconventional, such as ...

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A compact version of the Linux operating system. For example, Linux distributions such as Puppy and Damn Small Linux reside entirely within 64MB of RAM. Skinny Linux versions can be embedded into ...