We've written about portable apps quite a number of times in the past, but why bother with just apps when there's a whole OS that'll fit on a 50MB USB stick? Damn Small Linux, sometimes abbreviated ...

Damn Small Linux is a free download that fits inside less than 50MB, so it's easily booted from a CD, a USB drive, or an ancient PC with only 8MB of memory. Hit the link below, choose your download ...

Yep, Damn Small Linux is really, really small – as the DSL home page claims: “50 megabytes of penguin power.” And because it requires no host kernel patches or drivers to run, QEMU (a freeware ...

Just for curiousity's sake I was wondering if it would be possible to setup a computer using some sort of linux to act as a DSL Modem.<BR><BR>A DSL Modem emulator of sorts<BR><BR>A modem not a router, ...

These days, it only takes an increasingly-cheap USB thumb drive and a program like UNetbootin to create a portable Linux desktop you can run on any computer that can boot from a USB port. But check ...

The past few months have seen a flurry of Linux distribution updates, and this one is certainly no exception. What’s particularly intriguing about an announcement made last Friday, however, is that it ...

Have you ever had to use someone else’s PC at work – either to complete a quick task, or as a substitute machine for a short period of time? The experience is never pleasant – foreign desktop settings ...