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 ...

With the release of version 3.6, the Tiny Core crew have added a GUI method for hard disk installation. As I have, on previous occasions, banged on about this omission, I thought I'd take a look. In ...

Looking for a light-weight, but capable operating system? It doesn’t get much lighter than Tiny Core Linux. The disc image for the most basic version of this operating system is just 16MB, and it ...

At Ubuntu Summit 2023 in Riga, Latvia, Canonical product manager Oliver Smith and engineering manager Ken VanDine introduced the Ubuntu Core Desktop. It's not shipping yet, but it's getting closer -- ...

Several projects exist that purport to be small, run-in-memory distributions. The most popular probably is Puppy Linux. Puppy has spawned several variations, and I have used it several times myself on ...