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 ...

Honestly, François, why does ultimate always have to mean bigger, faster and more resource-intensive? Mon Dieu, sometimes all this speeding up just seems to make things work more slowly. Although I ...

The first thing you need to do when you start considering small Linux distributions is decide what your priorities are - what do you need it for and what are you planning to do with it? There are a ...

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 ...